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Study: New Orleans could lose 80 percent of black population
nola.com / AP ^ | January 26, 2006 | Michelle R. Smith [AP]

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. [...]

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: brownuniversity; chocolatecity; claptrap; flasedata; flawedstudy; hurricanekatrina; katrina; la; louisiana; moreofthesame; neworleans; nola; phonystudy
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To: caryatid

NOLA beginning to sound more "mocha" than "chocolate." No wonder Nagin wanted to delay election indeffinitely.


61 posted on 01/26/2006 5:33:07 PM PST by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: caryatid

I'm just waiting for someone to suggest that all the evacuees from New Orleans be allowed to vote absentee ballots at least through the next presidential election.


62 posted on 01/26/2006 5:36:15 PM PST by carola
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To: muawiyah
"One cold, hard fact none of these people ever bring up is that New Orlean's stock of wooden housing was being destroyed by the Formosa termite."

Yup, even attacking the living giant Live Oak trees.

I read one report about the researchers who were ther studying the Formosa Termite problem. Seems they came to work one morning and the floor to their headquarters had collapsed due to the termites. It was so severe, they had to move, lol.

63 posted on 01/26/2006 5:37:12 PM PST by blam
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To: carola
"I'm just waiting for someone to suggest that all the evacuees from New Orleans be allowed to vote absentee ballots at least through the next presidential election."

If they are not presently registered, they will have to go back to NO to register....too much work!

64 posted on 01/26/2006 5:39:01 PM PST by blam
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To: Man50D

Is there anyway that a similar result can be arranged for Detroit?


65 posted on 01/26/2006 5:41:51 PM PST by LibertarianCandidate
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To: Gordongekko909
The way you deal with Formosan termites is to replace all the wood in the house with steel frame and concrete.

That is, you rebuild the house from the foundation up.

Remember, these guys move in, move up, and munch on. They are not like ordinary termites that return to their nests after a hard day eating wood.

66 posted on 01/26/2006 5:53:51 PM PST by muawiyah (-)
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To: OldFriend

When you find yourself living below sealevel protected only by a levee system built by the lowest bidder on a government contract, administered by America's most corrupt local government, you are, in fact, doomed.


67 posted on 01/26/2006 5:56:38 PM PST by muawiyah (-)
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To: Gordongekko909

Cool, thanks.

I'm anxious to see a whole lot more of things far away from this area.


68 posted on 01/26/2006 5:57:00 PM PST by Radix (Welcome home 3 ID!)
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To: muawiyah

I was always under the impression that Chicago was more corrupt than us. That or San Diego.


69 posted on 01/26/2006 5:59:52 PM PST by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: Radix
If you want to take a bunch of boudin back home with you, get some at Best Stop. Make sure you get it frozen and keep it on ice all the way back. When you're ready to eat it, defrost it in the microwave for about five minutes, then zap it for a minute and a half.

Of course, if you're going to be eating it there, get it fresh. And get some cracklins with it. An average human being can probably consume 1/4 to 1/2 of a pound of cracklin in a single sitting (assuming that this is all you're eating; if you've got boudin and beer with it, decrease the amount you get accordingly). If the cracklins get cold, microwave them for about a minute and they'll be good again. They'll keep decently for about two days.

And, of course, drink beer with it. I recommend light beer, because you simply won't be able to handle anything else while you're eating all that.

Beer + boudin + cracklin + football game = most enjoyable few hours of your life.

70 posted on 01/26/2006 6:06:36 PM PST by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: muir_redwoods
The chances of former NO folks settling down in other places is VERY HIGH. That's already happened here in Springfield, Virginia. In any case, this is an immigrant community with folks from most places in the world. There is a budding restaurant district.

Several years ago I was able to inventory 135 restaurants within 2 miles of Springfield Mall. There are many more now. I am encountering New Orleans and other Gulf Coast cooks, waiters, etc. at the places we regularly go (and since I'm retired we are able to go out to dine whenever we wish). LA and MS plates are all over the place too.

Who in the world ever thought NO folks would be unemployed in a new home. They are quite welcome.

71 posted on 01/26/2006 6:06:59 PM PST by muawiyah (-)
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To: Gordongekko909

The crooks get caught in San Diego ~ in NO they get re-elected!


72 posted on 01/26/2006 6:09:03 PM PST by muawiyah (-)
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To: caryatid

A great many of the poor in New Orleans have found out they don't have to be poor. They've moved to other cities, got good paying jobs, have found nice houses or apartments, put their kids into good schools, and have found out that life can be good.


73 posted on 01/26/2006 6:12:21 PM PST by McGavin999 (If Intelligence Agencies can't find leakers, how can we expect them to find terrorists?)
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To: caryatid

Please add me to your Louisiana ping list.


74 posted on 01/26/2006 6:12:28 PM PST by ozzysmom
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To: muawiyah

No kidding. I'm just glad that Morial's attempt at changing the term limits law to give him a third term failed. As much as Nagin sucks, Morial was infinitely worse.


75 posted on 01/26/2006 6:18:42 PM PST by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: caryatid

but it appears most of the estimated 135,000 residents who have been able to return are white.


---Must be the ones that got jobs and are taking care of their families themselves. The rest you will never get off their dead a**es and get jobs unless hell freezes over first.


76 posted on 01/26/2006 6:24:03 PM PST by WasDougsLamb (I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man)
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To: UpTurn

Ping!


77 posted on 01/26/2006 6:43:52 PM PST by HoHoeHeaux ("Bayou Farewell")
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To: upchuck
You have NO idea.

My dad owns a drycleaning shop, and a lot of police officers bring their clothes there. He was talking with one about a week before Katrina hit about how bad New Orleans was and what could possibly happen to pull it out of the pit it was in.

Crimewaves in New Orleans used to operate on a 15-to-20 year cycle. Every decade and a half or so, crime would rise like crazy and then subside again. The reason, it seems, is that the gang bangers would have kids at about 15 years old and then get themselves killed or thrown in jail for the rest of their lives. Fifteen or twenty years later, the kids would get older and do the exact same thing.

Race politics used to be all there was in New Orleans. Even when Nagin was running, the words "Uncle Tom" and "House Slave" were getting thrown around because he "wasn't black enough" and "didn't care about New Orleans." This was kept afloat by the voting base.

Katrina, in spite of all its horrors, was a massive reset button. We have a chance to get it right this time.

78 posted on 01/26/2006 6:53:16 PM PST by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: TheStraightDope; Gordongekko909; All
Posted by Dope: Usually when one uses the word "demonstrably false" in an argument it is followed by a demonstration of how this is the case (same root word, see?) You have not provided this, nor do I think you can.

Here y'go, Dope:

Statistics Suggest Race Not a Factor in Katrina Deaths -- CNSNews.com -- December 14, 2005

and

Update: Statistics Confirm Earlier Report on Katrina Deaths -- CNSNews.com -- January 13, 2006

The statistics would be even more supportive of my post if they had used figures for Orleans Parish alone instead of for the State as a whole.


Posted by Dope: Regardless, I think it important that we not resort to knee-jerk conservatism on issues such as this; it really makes us no better than many on the left.

Welcome to FRee Republic, newby. Those who attack a poster, in a sanctimonious manner, with accusations of knee-jerk conservatism ... without having arrows in their quiver ... should apologize ... else it really makes us no better than many on the left.

LOL

 

 

Still waiting for an apology from the newby ...

79 posted on 01/26/2006 7:25:46 PM PST by caryatid (Jolie Blonde, 'gardez donc, quoi t'as fait ...)
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To: muir_redwoods
What are the chances that, once a significant number of folks from NO get a taste of life above sea level, they might actually like it and decide to settle elsewhere?

I did.     LOL

80 posted on 01/26/2006 7:32:34 PM PST by caryatid (Jolie Blonde, 'gardez donc, quoi t'as fait ...)
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