1. It's the 10th largest city in Louisiana.
2. Population 30, 617 in 2010, a number which today shows that population is decreasing.
3. The mystery writer James Lee Burke is from New Iberia. (In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead, his 1993 novel; Dans la Brume Electrique, 2009 film directed by Bertrand Tavernier*.) Burke's stories take place in Louisiana.
4. A group of 500 colonists from Malaga (southeast Spain) arrived in 1779 coming up Bayou Teche and settling around Spanish Lake.
5. About 24.9% of families and 29.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 40.8% of the people under age 18 and 20.8% of the people age 65 or over. (Wikipedia statistics, from 2000 census.) United States Census Bureau shows persons below the poverty level in New Iberia, 2009-2013 to be 26.1%.
Louisiana's poverty rates are among the nation's highest.
Louisiana 18.3%; Mississippi 20.1% and last, the District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.) 20.7%. **
This sad information makes the Cajun "JOIE DE VIVRE" and "LAISSEZ LE BON TEMPS ROULER" even more special!
Jane
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* For movie buffs: This film, Dans La Brume Electrique, has never been released in the cinemas in the U.S., only in Europe and Asia. It was shown twice on just one evening in James Burke's hometown of New Iberia. A shorter DVD version was sold in the U.S. In 2009, the film had positive reviews in France; reviews for the American version were mixed. In December 2009, Bertrand Tavernier released a book titled Pas à Pas dans la Brume Electrique), which is a day-by-day account of the shooting of the film ( = le récit du tournage).
**Can someone help me find statistics for France? I've read that it is the lowest since 1997, with 14% of the population below the poverty line, but I'm not certain of my sources.)
Jane
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* For movie buffs: This film, Dans La Brume Electrique, has never been released in the cinemas in the U.S., only in Europe and Asia. It was shown twice on just one evening in James Burke's hometown of New Iberia. A shorter DVD version was sold in the U.S. In 2009, the film had positive reviews in France; reviews for the American version were mixed. In December 2009, Bertrand Tavernier released a book titled Pas à Pas dans la Brume Electrique), which is a day-by-day account of the shooting of the film ( = le récit du tournage).
**Can someone help me find statistics for France? I've read that it is the lowest since 1997, with 14% of the population below the poverty line, but I'm not certain of my sources.)
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