Because we're supposed to believe that their welfare checks weren't big enough to buy bus tickets, according to trash I've read.
Any able bodied person, should have left. I mean how many actually left and stayed?
Yes, I've heard that spin today.
But let's take that a step further.
These people are, for all intents and purposes, the Democratic Party base; the Democratic Party controls Louisiana and has, for as long as I can remember, told us that they are the party that takes care of the poor.
Why didn't THEY take care of their constituents and make plans to get them all out.