Those who stayed where the very poor or ill who did not have the means to leave.
The sad answer is that many of these residents remained because they where waiting for the government to aid them.
When the inbound lanes of the highways around New Orleans where rerouted outbound to allow for faster evacuation by road, they waited.
If things where really that bad, the government would come through for them and tell them where to go, what to do, and provide the means to make it happen.
Were did this guy go to grammar, or proofreading, school?
How about his math?
"The total disabled population of New Orleans who might not have been able to evacuate is estimated at around 55,000 residents. So, the question must be asked why up to half a million people did not evacuate the city."
I just checked the 2000 census for New Orleans. Population: 484,674.
So the total population is less than half-a-million . The author makes good points and he is right on about the side-effects of the Democrats' socialist welfare state, but he harms his own credibility with his sloppiness.
Many residents in New Orleans remained because they have been so indoctrinated into the idea that they will be taken care of by the government that they are incapable to looking out for themselves.>>>>>>>>
In the dirt poor SC county where I went to public school we were taught that a person could be incapable OF doing something, incapable TO sounds like ghetto talk.