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<blockquote data-quote="Buddybrown" data-source="post: 1049709" data-attributes="member: 30291"><p>---- Notwithstanding the many claims that blacks had been hit hardest by Katrina, in fact it was whites who were disproportionately affected by the disaster. Four of the five parishes worst hit by flooding in New Orleans -- Jefferson, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, and St. Tammany -- were majority-white (with whites accounting for aywhere from 67% to 88% of the respective populations). Of the five, only Orleans Parish was majority-black (67%). In Mississippi, the three counties that were hardest hit — Hancock, Harrison, and Jackson – were among the whitest counties in the state. While the population of Mississippi as a whole was 36 percent black and just over 60 percent white, the cumulative population of these three particular counties was 80 percent white.&nbsp; With regard to deaths caused by Katrina, Michelle Malkin reports:&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;According to vital statistics released just months after the storm by the primary morgue that processed the bodies of the deceased, 48 percent of those who died in the natural disaster were black, 41 percent were white, with another 8 percent unknown and 2 percent Hispanic. Little-noted follow-up analysis confirmed those preliminary results and also debunked the myth that the poor were disproportionately affected by the storm.&quot; ---&nbsp; <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=142" target="_blank">Blaming Racism for Katrina&#039;s Deadly Effects - Discover the Networks</a></p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Buddybrown, post: 1049709, member: 30291"] ---- Notwithstanding the many claims that blacks had been hit hardest by Katrina, in fact it was whites who were disproportionately affected by the disaster. Four of the five parishes worst hit by flooding in New Orleans -- Jefferson, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, and St. Tammany -- were majority-white (with whites accounting for aywhere from 67% to 88% of the respective populations). Of the five, only Orleans Parish was majority-black (67%). In Mississippi, the three counties that were hardest hit — Hancock, Harrison, and Jackson – were among the whitest counties in the state. While the population of Mississippi as a whole was 36 percent black and just over 60 percent white, the cumulative population of these three particular counties was 80 percent white. With regard to deaths caused by Katrina, Michelle Malkin reports: "According to vital statistics released just months after the storm by the primary morgue that processed the bodies of the deceased, 48 percent of those who died in the natural disaster were black, 41 percent were white, with another 8 percent unknown and 2 percent Hispanic. Little-noted follow-up analysis confirmed those preliminary results and also debunked the myth that the poor were disproportionately affected by the storm." --- [url=http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=142]Blaming Racism for Katrina's Deadly Effects - Discover the Networks[/url] [/QUOTE]

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