"Of the 528 bodies recovered from identifiable addresses in city neighborhoods, 230 came from areas that had household incomes above the citywide median of $27,133. The poorer areas accounted for 298 bodies...
Of the 380 bodies from New Orleans that have been formally identified, a moderately disproportionate number are white. New Orleans' population was 28% white, yet 33% of the identified victims in the city are white and 67% black."
1 posted on
12/18/2005 12:58:45 PM PST by
kellynla
To: kellynla
Upper middle class people died also?
Karl Rove must be losing his touch. (/sarc)
To: kellynla
The analysis contradicts what swiftly became conventional wisdom in the days after the storm hit In other words, the Democrats and the media have yet again been revealed as liars with an ugly agenda...
6 posted on
12/18/2005 2:16:40 PM PST by
The Electrician
("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
To: kellynla
Minister Farrakhan's theories about how this happened should be interesting.
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8 posted on
12/18/2005 4:34:37 PM PST by
CajunConservative
(Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Jindal.)
To: kellynla
The analysis contradicts what swiftly became conventional wisdom in the days after the storm hit
--And this comes as a suprise to whom?
9 posted on
12/18/2005 4:39:22 PM PST by
WasDougsLamb
(I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man)
To: kellynla
yet 33% of the identified victims in the city are white It comes out to 52 percent of the victims are NOT BLACK.
10 posted on
12/18/2005 4:41:46 PM PST by
Howlin
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