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Mike Davis on Hurricane Katrina

category international | miscellaneous | other press author Tuesday September 06, 2005 13:13author by dave - swp

The evacuation of New Orleans in the face of Hurricane Ivan looked sinisterly like Strom Thurmond's version of the Rapture. Affluent white people fled the Big Easy in their SUVs, while the old and car-less -- mainly Black -- were left behind in their below-sea-level shotgun shacks and aging tenements to face the watery wrath.

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