Simple Geography

Posted on September 24th, 2005 by mike

New Orleans is already displaying signs of a demographic shift so dramatic that some evacuees describe it as “ethnic cleansing.” Before Mayor Ray Nagin called for a second evacuation, the people streaming back into dry areas were mostly white, while those with no homes to return to are overwhelmingly black. This, we are assured, is not a conspiracy; it’s simple geography–a reflection of the fact that wealth in New Orleans buys altitude.

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  1. Anonymous // Dec 19, 2005 at 10:11:12

    Well, what do you know!

    The bodies of New Orleans residents killed by
    Hurricane Katrina were almost as likely to be
    recovered from middle-class neighborhoods as from
    the city’s poorer districts, such as the Lower
    9th Ward, according to a Times analysis of data
    released by the state of Louisiana.

    The analysis contradicts what swiftly became
    conventional wisdom in the days after the storm
    hit – that it was the city’s poorest African
    American residents who bore the brunt of the
    hurricane. Slightly more than half of the bodies
    were found in the city’s poorer neighborhoods,
    with the remainder scattered throughout
    middle-class and even some richer districts.

    http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bodies18dec18,0,7754290.story?coll=la-home-headlines

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