And the "crime rate" question is the critical one.
Most of the people from the high crime areas in New Orleans aren't the ones that are here. They settled into Houston, Baton Rouge and places like Arkansas and Memphis, and from what I understand, there have been some problems in Houston. Those are not the evacuees we want. If we are to get any, we want people from Lakeview, people from the more well kept parts of Uptown that were flooded, people from those new subdivisions along Bullard Road, and people from the Irish Bayou. In other words, the people we want did not have their kids in the New Orleans public school system.
(Prior to Katrina, New Orleans had the distincition of being America's only city with more people in private than public schools)
What I really worry about is the crime issue, namely, what if some of the evacuees who have caused the crime rate spike in Baton Rouge, what if they come this way.
We made great progress in the last 16 years on the crime front, and I'd hate to see this botch it.
And the question is, how many law abiding evacuees does an area take in before the ones who are criminals start entering en masse.