Actually, N.O. isn’t nearly as chocolate as it was pre-Katrina. Many of those on the government dole were evacuated to better places and chose not to return.
That’s not a sarcastic remark. Pure truth.
If statistics are to be believed those “better Places” saw their crime rate skyrocket. That is not sarcastic either.
I went to New Orleans in 2007 for about two hours, the only time I have been there. It came about as a result of spending a week at Bay St. Louis, Miss. helping to work on some houses there. On the final day we went to New Orleans so that those who had never been there could see Bourbon Street and the river walk.
Coming into the city I was amazed, looking down from the expressway I could see thousands of abandoned wooden houses, many of them covered with vines, the whole area looked like a scene from a horror movie. I thought that one match would have started a fire of astounding proportions, I wondered what was keeping it from going up in flames.
NO,s “gain” is Houston’s “loss.”
It is true.
New Orleans is no longer the ‘chocolate’ city Ray Nagin
assured everyone it would remain/
It’s the low-income Black renters that fled 5 years ago
and haven’t returned in great numbers (can you blame them?)
And it’s the homeowners of whatever color who HAVE returned.
Just one of the many unintended conseqences you can ‘thank’
an entrenched let the good times roll corrupt Dem Party bureaucracy for/ I spent two weeks there 7 months after Katrina hit, and the city was only about 30% repopulated, with my nephew, a musician who set off on his tour bus literally two days before Katrina hit, being one of the FIRST people allowed back in the city when they rolled in at the end of a four month tour.When he got in, (with a very good explanation) the city was literally about 5% populated. He’s got great camcorder footage of what the city looked like then.
Democratic politics appropriated million of dollars for levees that were never built. Obama is going down there for inspiration.