New Orleans scores high on the "first annual Pretension Index"
 

http://media2.fdncms.com/gambit/imag...4.04.23_pm.png (Is it pretentious to point out it should be 'Pretense Index'?)

So a company called Cafe Valet (which "has revolutionized the way coffee is offered and consumed in more than a million hotel rooms across North America") has done one of those pseudo-scientific surveys ? this one a*"quantitative analysis of pretension levels in America":

Developed by a team of data scientists, the Pretension Index examines where these modern day latte art lovers are most concentrated, mining data from a variety of sources including the U.S. Census Bureau, Facebook, local business data and more in the 50 most populous U.S. metro areas.*

And New Orleans now makes the Top 10 ? lower than San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Denver or Austin, but above Chicago and New York:

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