Wordie
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Fri Sep-09-05 04:06 PM
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NO was a little blue island, swimming in a sea of red. |
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To what extent do you think the POLITICS that the republicans keep complaining about, were really played in the inadequate federal response to the crisis? New Orleans was a tiny blue speck on the southern map. And now everything (port, industry, etc.) looks like it may be moved up to Baton Rouge. Tell me, is Baton Rouge a republican city? Is that why the levees weren't funded?
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Fri Sep-09-05 04:11 PM
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1. NO was a truly unique city ... |
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One that still valued living over commerce, where people may have been quite poor but were quite HAPPY NONETHELESS. New Orleans wasn't following the southern "go-go economic resurgence" plan (a la Atlanta, Houston, etc.) -- it was continuing to go its own way -- and I'm convinced that's why it was neglected. Natives who are doing "eulogies" to the Big Easy are now saying that it was a totally different way of living from much of the rest of this country, and certainly not a way of life that money-grubbing, work-is-everything rightwing Rethugs could appreciate or value. It was politics, but it was social as well.
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Fri Sep-09-05 04:17 PM
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2. They started saying it should be abandoned right away...so sad. n/t |
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