[blatz]

Oh, it's simple...

A parish is an entire county in Louisiana controlled by wealthy yet corrupt old landed families.

A ward is a neigborhood in New Orleans, controlled by possibly or possibly not corrupt religous leaders and usually corrupt cousins and in-laws if mayors.

Districts are divisions in New Orleans of police enforcement. They are much less corrupt than they used to be.

And if anyone cares, I ended up staying home and playing in my underwear, the official sole clothing of the New Orleans summer. I'm not old enough to pour gold bond powder on my crotch, that's what you do when you become 50 or older. But I dream of the day.

Please ask me anything about New Orleans (I'll probably be able to use the word corrupt in the answer)