The article certainly identifies well the cultural dogma many who were there in N.O. learned from their peers and elders. It's not so much "a welfare state" as it is a cultural indoctrination that appears devoid of other influences.
The truly needy -- elderly without resources, disabled, children without families/parents -- are left to suffer the consequences and further social disinfranchisement brought about by criminal character.
But how it is that so many of those on public assistance were congregated in New Orleans...well, I just don't know how that occured.
Los Angeles, Miami, other cities, take note.
AMEN!
"But how it is that so many of those on public assistance were congregated in New Orleans...well, I just don't know how that occured."
Every major city, especially in the South, is exactly like that.