Need some reading help (handwriting)

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This is an excerpt from the electoral roll of New Orleans (‘Orleans Parish’, 1937).

I wonder what the highlighted abbreviation means? It's in the ‘Race’ column, I interpret the “W” in other entries as ‘white’, but this one?

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[+3] - thack45 - 06/28/2025Oh. The handwriting changes after the first 4 rows. They're all "W's". You can see the them in a couple of the last names.

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@Walter Hinteler,

Could it be English or French?

An or Fr?

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It looks like "Jr." to me.

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@izzythepush,

Well, it is English, I think.

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@thack45,

It's in the "Color" column.

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@Walter Hinteler,

That wouldn't make much sense then would it? It looks (less so) like "gr."...

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@thack45,

I interpret the ‘W’ in the first four at the top of the list as ‘white’.

What would ‘gr’ mean then? (Or "br", which I read first of all.)

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Oh. The handwriting changes after the first 4 rows. They're all "W's". You can see the them in a couple of the last names.

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@thack45,

That's it! Thanks very much!!!

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@Walter Hinteler,

https://c.tenor.com/hfcevOVQgxsAAAAd/tenor.gif

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