As far as NOLA goes, I wish it no ill will, but I can tell you this much...the DIM voting block will return when the Government Cheese stores open. In other words, wherever the handouts are more attractive, thats where they'll roost. There are plenty of Check Cashing Stores outside of NOLA.
Do you really want them back? I know your mayor does.
I don't necessarily want them back but I would understand why they would want to come home. It has a lot more to do with being near family, roots, and things familiar. Surely you understand what that is like? Last time I looked people were still pretty much free to live wherever they wanted here in the US.
"Do you really want them back? I know your mayor does."
Nagin is in office because he won 70% of the white vote, which, if you read his margin of victory, shows that he and Pennington split the black vote pretty evenly, with blacks more inclined towards the Dutch side of life (thats a reference to a former Mayor) going for Morial's chief.
The image of Nagin that the national media portrayed is not a realistic one, he's not an ardent Democrat, he's not some sort of radical black power guy, and to be honest, prior to Katrina, he represented the best hope New Orleans had of pulling itself out of the muck. Even now, Nagin is working more closely with the feds then he is with Blanco, this should tell you just about where he lies in the scheme of things.