[jyl]

New Orleans isn't going to come back to what it was. The city has been permanently shrunk, and there simply isn't an economic incentive to rebuild all that low-income housing. These people have got to move on. I imagine many of the best and brightest have done so.

In Berkeley, I got to know a Katrina refugee, a young guy, he'd come to the SF Bay where he knew no-one, gotten a job as a teachers' aide in a school, was rebuilding his life. I really respected him.