Having been there many, many times, and living there for a couple of years, this is a pretty good summation.
Regarding New Orleans, an excerpt from "Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need":
New Orleans is a wide open town, a town where there is gambling and heavy drinking and naked dancing and wild orgiastic sex. And that's just in the police station. The rest of the city is even looser, especially the French Quarter, which is so decadent that if the Reverend Jerry Fallwell were to merely walk down the length of Bourbon Street, he would emerge at the other end with an overpowering desire to purchase leather underwear.* New Orleans also boasts a number of historic sites, the major one being Nick G. Castrogiovanni's Big Train Bar, which is where, during the 1988 Republican convention, this author, for sound journalism reasons, drank a drink called "A Wild Night at the Capri Motel" out of a large styrofoam container shaped like a toilet.
*Assuming he doesn't have some already.