[My2Cents]

150 million Americans in the Gulf Coast.....

Nagin must be using the metric system of counting.

[reagandemo]

Nope he is using the "million man" method of counting. He was taught by professor Farrakhan.

[frankjr]

I think I found where Nagin screwed up. Per the US Census: " About 53 percent of the nation’s total population lives in coastal areas, which account for only 17 percent of the total U.S. land area. The total population of Alabama’s coastal counties’ in 2004 was 727,090, or about 16 percent of the state’s entire population. Mississippi’s coastal counties’ population was 607,635, or 21 percent of the state population. Louisiana’s coastal parishes’ total population was 3,555,628, or about 79 percent the state's population. Gulf coast counties in Florida contained 6.8 million residents, or about 39 percent of the state’s total population."

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/hurricanes_tropical_storms/005345.html

The Gulf coast is about 12MM people (out of 300MM U.S. or 4%). Mayor Noggin' forgot those other "coasts" in the U.S...the little ones like the Alantic Coast and the Pacific Coast. LOL!!!!

[RedMonqey]

Not metric but Ebonics...

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I think Nagin is using the Drunken system of counting- the Democrats are quite fond of it.

[pepsionice]

Well...don't dead people in New Orleans still count as living folks? If you go out and count all the dead dudes since 1800...I think you might get up to 70 million just in Louisiana alone. The thing about this...is that Zombies ought to count for something. You don't build a major city in the US on Voodo...and just wipe the slate clean on dead folks. Something has to count. And the big thing...is that you need to hire and pay them dead folks....as seen with the Police dept there in Chocolateville. But...paying taxes is illegal...even by IRS standards...for dead folks. So someone did alot of thinking and realizes the value of hiring dead folks and registering them to vote as well.