Observer foresees ongoing white majority (White Chocolate City?)

The Times-Picayune / NOLA.com ^ | Saturday, March 25, 2006 | Coleman Warner

[chemicalman]

Sociologist William Falk isn't sure how many people displaced from New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina will, in time, return to the city to live. But in an article soon to be published in the academic journal Du Bois Review, Falk confidently offers one projection: New Orleans won't be a majority-black city again for some time.

A specialist in historical African-American migration patterns who previously taught at Louisiana State University, Falk said Friday at a New Orleans conference that he believes displaced black New Orleanians are far less likely than white residents to come back in coming years, even if they miss the city.

Falk based that assessment on media reports and polls showing that black people displaced by the killer storm were more likely than white residents to have found a temporary refuge a great distance from New Orleans, suffered property damage at greater rates and have fewer financial resources to devote to returning. Many of the same African-American storm evacuees have found a "land of promise" away from New Orleans, said Falk, 61, now a sociology department chairman at the University of Maryland.

[JRios1968]

[Triggerhippie]

I think I see Nagin in there...
Chocolate AND nuts!

[dhuffman@awod.com]

Any other questions?

[ClaireSolt]

Next?

[lormand]

The "land of promise" was anywhere but New Orleans as it has always been.

[rogue yam]

I believe the correct technical term is "Marshmallow City".

[oldenuff2no]

A lot of these Black people lived in a ghetto and paid ghetto rent on a welfare or minimum wage income. They are not going to rebuild a ghetto. The new housing will cost more to buy or to rent and these folks won't be able to afford the higher rates. This would be true in any ghetto of any color in any area of the world if hit by a similar disaster. Jackson, Nagin and several other self proclaimed Black leaders have played every race card they have trying to make this some kind of slavery issue.
Nagin is simply a race pimp black raciest. He was at the head of the line when the money was handed out but at near the end of the line for honesty and integrity. He was at the wheel of the most corrupt City in the United States when this disaster hit and was completely impotent to help himself or the people of New Orleans. He is a total failure as a mayor. He failed the people of New Orleans in every way possible in their time of need and then did his level best to blame it all on someone, anyone else.
Nagin's political career is now labeled with the pictures of hundreds of buses sitting in the middle of the flood area. Anyone with two working brain cells instantly knows that those buses should have been used to save the lives of those citizens we lost in this terrible disaster.
By not ordering those buses into service, Nagin murdered those citizens of New Orleans.

[Kirkwood]

Uh... talk about getting it wrong! New Orleans is already a black majority city once again. The demographic ratios for race are virtually identical today to what they were before Katrina. New Orleans was only a white majority city for a couple of months, at most.

[WhiteGuy]

Seriously.................

I DO like White chocolate.

I also like milk chocolate and I really like Dark chocolate.............................

so, is this an attack on why I'm fat...........or what?

[hotshu]

KW,

I grew up in Slidell and lived in and around NOLA from '76 through '87. I had/have fond memories of those times. I care not what "color" the city was, is, or will be.

What matters to me is "Is there any chance that the sewer that was backing up when I left jas been cleansed?" Are the corrupt judges, crooked DA's and cops, and unqualified teachers gone?

We all know about Nagin and his inept, nay criminally negligent, behavior before, during, and after Katrina. What about the citizens? How many are really getting back to work versus waiting for outside help?

[Kirkwood]

Everyone I know who has returned is also back at work. The idea that NOLA citizens are lazy, unemployed, and looking for handouts is essentially a complete myth. The only ones doing that were the ones already on welfare and those haven't returned because they don't have the ability to do so. Basically NO homeowners are just trying to get what is either due them from their insurance or what was promised to them in terms of SBA loans and such. I have yet to meet anyone who wants a free handout, although I'm sure they exist somewhere if you look hard enough.