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Metairie| Community in Jefferson Parish, southeastern Louisiana, just northwest of New Orleans; population (2000) 146,100. Metairie is by far the largest suburb of New Orleans. |
| The community's name dates from early in the 18th century, when French settlers in the region farmed the land in métairies, or small plots within a sharecropping system. Metairie today stretches from the Mississippi River in the south to Lake Pontchartrain in the north. Ethnically, this out-of-town suburb is 92% White, while the city of New Orleans is 62% Black. |
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