Study confirms blacks bore brunt of Katrina
New Orleans' black population dropped 57 percent a year after Hurricane Katrina, while the white population declined 36 percent, according to an analysis by three demographers of new U.S. Census data that confirms the disaster's disproportionate impact on the city's racial compostion.
Billed as the "first full picture" of the mass migration after the hurricane, the analysis also found that New Orleanians displaced to Houston and other cities were more likely to be black, uneducated and poor.
By contrast, those who relocated to the city's suburbs were more likely to be white, educated and well off. MIGUEL BUSTILLO in the Los Angeles Times.
Billed as the "first full picture" of the mass migration after the hurricane, the analysis also found that New Orleanians displaced to Houston and other cities were more likely to be black, uneducated and poor.
By contrast, those who relocated to the city's suburbs were more likely to be white, educated and well off. MIGUEL BUSTILLO in the Los Angeles Times.