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Yes, I do think NO will rebuild but it will be a slightly different city and its gonoing to take a mightly long time. Amazingly enough, most of the historic districts survived pretty well, although you'd never know that listening to the press, they've been fixated on the 9th ward. The city is badly damaged but not mortally. It will be interesting to see how it fares during this year's hurricane season.

As for the population diversity.... well, I doubt the Mayor's prediction of a "chocolate city" will actually happen. The majority of the poorest black polulation has resettled in other towns. Unfortunately for those towns they came with a ton of personal baggage. It doesn't matter how large a city was before the evacuees arrived, no city is prepared for huge population increases overnight. It puts a serious strain on all their resources, not the least of which is law enforcement. For instance, in Houston the murder rate has climbed considerably since the storms with the majority of perps and victims being evacuees. A frind of mine in Houston says they're now calling it, "Death by Chocolate".