- "The safest community in Louisiana."
- — Motto
Sinclair Parish is a location that serves as the setting for the Mafia III DLC Faster, Baby!.
History[]
Background[]
Established October 7, 1846, Sinclair Parish is a small rural community on the outskirts of New Bordeaux, located west of Bayou Fantom. It's made up of family farms with a town center that serves as a central hub for its citizens.
Until 1968, the all-white population of the Parish was considered a "sundown county", meaning if any person of color was found there after dark, that would be the last anyone ever saw of them. This status quo was maintained by Sinclair's white supremacist Sheriff, Walter "Slim" Beaumont, and his handpicked racist Deputies of the Sinclair Parish Sheriff's Department.
Civil Rights Case[]
In 1968, the Parish found itself at the center of a civil rights case, brought against Sheriff Beaumont by a group of activists led by Charles Laveau. Together with a team of volunteers, including several brave citizens of Sinclair, the group brought down the Sheriff, his co-conspirators in the Sheriff's Department, and members of the Southern Union, some of whom belonged to the Louisiana political machine. This effort was the first step in bringing about lasting change to the community.
Locations of Interest[]
Trivia[]
- Prior to completion of the first sitdown, the road leading to Sinclair Parish is blocked by a large rock slide.
- A parish is a territorial division corresponding to a county in other states. Originally, Louisiana was the territory of Spain and then France, both Roman Catholic countries, and those colonial powers divided their lands according to church parish boundaries for administrative purposes. After annexation by the United States, Louisiana continued to refer to administrative regions as parishes rather than counties.
- Sinclair Parish is possibly based on Jefferson Parish, a Louisiana parish close to New Orleans. While there were no parishes in Louisiana that were ever sundown (in fact, sundown towns/counties were less common in the US South compared to the rest of the United States, as Jim Crow/segregation laws restricted the large black population in the region), Jefferson Parish contained 2 communities which were known to be sundown towns: Grand Isle and Jean Lafitte.
Notes[]
- Dark lines may appear on the game map which correspond to the location of the train tracks in the district.
- After wiretapping Sinclair Parish, the map will not highlight the brighter green color as the main New Bordeaux map does.
