Interesting Article in NY Times

[arminnie]

The entire 11 page article is at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/magazine/09neworleans.html?pagewanted=1
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Wading Toward Home
By MICHAEL LEWIS
Published: October 9, 2005
I thought this paragraph was interesting. It was describing his return to N.O.

The next surprise was that a city supposedly inundated had so much dry land. When the levees broke, Lake Pontchartrain stole back the wetlands long ago reclaimed for housing. Between the new lake shore and the Mississippi River of my youth is dry land with the houses of about 185,000 people.

The city government in exile has categorized the high-ground population as 55 percent black, 42 percent white and 3 percent Hispanic. The flood did not discriminate by race or class. It took out a lot of poor people's homes, but it took out a lot of rich people's homes too.

It did discriminate historically: it took out everything but the old city. If you asked an architecture critic, or a preservationist, to design a flood of this size in New Orleans, he would have given you something like this one.