Except they're not Haitian boat people fleeing Haiti. The "truly mired down" will stay "truly mired down" no matter where they relocate. Give them concrete reasons to pull themselves up out of their mired condition, and they might reconsider. They're "truly mired down" because they've been conditioned to think that way by the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Given an option, they'll rethink their current situation, decide they've had enough and chart a different course in life, whether they're relocated in Bozeman, MT, or Murfreesboro, TN, or going back to NOLA. Many want to stay where they're at, and probably just as many want to go back. Who can blame them?
We can surely have opinions on their behavior if they continue to make bad choices like illegitimacy and drug addiction once they are permanently relocated or their homes are rebuilt down there.
BSF, I am currently watching early 80s era public housing "projects" that replaced the original Great Society ones being torn down to be replaced once again with newer brighter shining city on the hill models that in another 20 years will be totaled.
In my hometown of Jackson Miss , it's so bad they just abandon them along with city block after block and move on to another area to blight.
I don't how it is Montana.....I only know the park and some towns from 30 years ago but in areas with high NOLA type issues like where I live and have lived....it just goes on and on.
That decaying culture will have to change from within...until then it's just band-aid to band-aid.
All we can do is the humane stuff. Housing and food and medical.