In v. 24, #407, Lisa Hancock wrote (apropos of New Orleans):
I also note that some newspaper columnists pulled the race card,
> claiming more might have been done had New Orleans been a more
> affluent or Bush supporting area instead of poor and black. Yet other
> states get floods in very wealthy areas where million dollar homes are
> washed out. So much for that theory.
Well, yes, of course they do: hurricanes are equal-opportunity disasters.
The point being made was that the *response* is quite different. Note that, even in the case of Katrina, President Bush promised to see that Trent Lott's house is rebuilt.
--Dale Neiburg