Posted on 01/26/2006 4:30:28 PM PST by caryatid
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The city of New Orleans could lose up to 80 percent of its black population if people displaced by Hurricane Katrina are not able to return to their damaged neighborhoods, according to an analysis released Thursday by a Brown University sociologist.
Blacks and the poor were disproportionately affected by Katrina, according to the study led by Brown Professor John R. Logan. The analysis concludes that the difficulty in moving back to the city could mean a massive loss of population, overwhelmingly among blacks.
New Orleans was more than 65 percent black before Katrina hit in August, but it appears most of the estimated 135,000 residents who have been able to return are white. Mayor Ray Nagin recently apologized for saying New Orleans would remain a "chocolate city" as he tried to allay fears that blacks would not return.
The study found that if New Orleans' returning population was limited to the neighborhoods undamaged by Katrina, about half the white population would not return and 80 percent of its black population would not. [...]
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
Only in New Orleans do you know, on a first-name basis, at least half a dozen bartenders by the time you're old enough to legally drink.
Fast becoming more leche...than chocolate
I love that pic and the fact that that dude has a website dedicated to him. I may need to buy a looterguy coffee mug.
There goes that delicious drink!
My personal favorite was the Rummy Ramsey at Bon Ton.
Your image is being intercepted by angelfire -- we all get a reallly big "image hosted by" with no real image.
Well, we all could send Ray Noogin some chocolate kisses in time for Mardi Gras.
Yep, lots of Hispanics here right now. All working construction. And they've got money to throw around. They seem pretty cool so far.
Big difference in being able to pack up your favorite things and move them elsewhere.......as opposed to have a storm surge destroy your every last memory.
Heh. Mods pulled it.
And the USA could lose its freedom and sovereignty because of the perpetual racial droning that is brought about by the media.
Re#17 Actually, the numbers show that whites died equally with the blacks, if not moreso, based on proportionate populations in NOLA. See, e.g., http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1554614/posts
There were many Hispanics in the NOLA area in the 1970s. The difference being that they were white Cuban exiles who lived in Metairie.
My dad learned their names in elementary school when he was sent down to the bars to pick up beer for his dad.
Sorry, Dope ... the facts are not on your side here. The bodies at the morgue in St. Gabriel were disproportionately white [i.e. too many whites for their percentage of the population] ... and the Lower 9th Ward was NOT the only damaged neighborhood in the City ... despite what the MSM would have the world believe.
For example, see:
Wait, I live(d) in Lakeview, a predominantly white and Republican area. You know the 17th Street Canal breach? That breach was in Lakeview. These folks need to get their demographic info straight.
post 4 by Gordongekko909
Mid-city, Lakeview and vast swathes of white neighborhoods were equally devastated.
Lizavetta, you appear to be new to these threads ... perhaps you should stick around for a while before suggesting that I am trying to stir up more racial tensions. Few people, white or black, on the Katrina threads have been more sympathetic toward, and supportive of, ALL the folks who have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina ... regardless of their neighborhood or ethnicity.
However, truth is truth ... and when something false is published I will point it out ... whether you like it or not.
Methinks the Mexicans and Central Americans will adopt better to Louisiana than Calipornia. The culture of the locals is more similar than, say, the white bread Anglos of southern Cal.
Actually, Nagin is living in fear of a caramel takeover, what with all the illegals now invading for jobs.
And vice versa ... and, when you walk into a bar you do not have to "order" ... as your bartender sees you out of the corner of his eye and brings your drink over when he comes to greet you ...but, then, one has to be from New Orleans to understand. LOL
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