Carnival parades, the "Krewe", liven up the entire month leading up to Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday.

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It's Fat Tuesday, and you know what that means in New Orleans.

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It kicks off with a beach party and culminates with a Caribbean-style Fat Tuesday of dinner, dancing and a live steel band on a white sand beach.

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Then, a week after South Carolina and Florida, on February 5th, you have what people call Super Duper Tuesday, some people call it Fat Tuesday, but you have 13 states, several of them in the South, several with huge black populations - Maryland, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama.

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