Study: New Orleans could lose 80 percent of black population

[kpete]

Study: New Orleans could lose 80 percent of black population
By Michelle R. Smith, Associated Press Writer | January 26, 2006

PROVIDENCE, R.I. --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.


http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2006/01/26/study_new_orleans_could_lose_80_percent_of_black_population/

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

1. Send Out Those Resumes Nagin....

Time for you so-called LA democrats to look for new jobs.

[MadHound]

2. And thus NOLA is changed, irrepariably

Thus New Orleans that we knew and loved will no longer be the same. It is going to become a white-bread, cleaned up, sanitized, Disneyfied, tourist trap shell of its former self, never to be the same again.

How very, very sad, for NOLA was one of the more unique areas left in this country. No more.

[OneBlueSky]

3. it's called "ethnic cleansing" . . . n/t

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[ScreamingMeemie]

4. It's what they were hoping for when they cut funding to secure the levees

and make them stronger. Hell is too good for this administration.,