How does Michael describe the differences between New Orleans and Pensacola in the book, Loving Women: A Novel of the Fifties?

Michael describes New Orleans as the antithesis of Pensacola, with its rigid divisions, a feminine world as opposed to the masculine. Michael says that it "reached out and hugged him," as he loses himself in the maze of the French Quarter, and discovers the world (the Cafe du Monde, with beignets and chicory coffee) and Eden too.