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I thought Ray Nagin was going to make New Orleans a chocolate city once again.
Yet another 'liberal conspiracy theory' comes full circle....
By ADAM NOSSITER
Published: November 20, 2007
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 19 —LinkIn one of the clearest signs yet of Hurricane Katrina’s lasting demographic impact, the City Council is about to have a white majority for the first time in over two decades, pointing up again the storm’s displacement of thousands of residents, mostly black. In local elections on Saturday, a veteran white politician, Jacquelyn B. Clarkson, defeated an African-American candidate, Cynthia Willard-Lewis, by 53 percent to 47 percent, in a contest for an at-large Council seat decided largely along racial lines. In addition, substantially more whites than blacks appear to have voted. Ms. Clarkson will become the fourth white member on the seven-member Council....
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Since the mid-1980s, black politicians have held virtually all of the reins of power in a city where interest groups are sharply factionalized along racial lines and blacks were once two-thirds of the population. Saturday’s vote indicated a transition is in the making, perhaps similar to the one that occurred at the end of the segregation era here.
White candidates made other gains on Saturday, taking two New Orleans seats in the Louisiana Legislature long held by blacks, and a state court judgeship that had also been occupied by a black judge.
Voting was largely along racial lines. The apparently greater number of votes cast by whites — 29,700, compared with 22,900 black votes, according to an analysis by (Gregory C. Rigamer, a local demographic analyst) — makes uncertain widely quoted estimates that blacks, despite a disproportionate population loss, are still substantially in the majority here.
The weekend election appeared to confirm what many had predicted immediately after the storm in 2005: New Orleans became almost overnight a smaller, whiter city with a much reduced black majority. And the results suggested that the election for mayor last year, where voting percentages were closer to pre- Katrina norms, might have been something of a fluke....
Mission accomplished again!
I thought Ray Nagin was going to make New Orleans a chocolate city once again.
So blacks are among the majority there just like the article says and yet they didn't cast as many votes as the white folks.Yet another 'liberal conspiracy theory' comes full circle....
[B]By ADAM NOSSITER
Published: November 20, 2007
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Mission accomplished again!
Obviously there is racial tension still there if whites are only voiting for whites and blacks for blacks, but why are you blaming someone that black people didn't show up to vote?
Oh yeah, Katrina was Bush's fault..........my bad.
Wait, I just read this again and now I can't help but LMFAO.
"The weekend election appeared to confirm what many had predicted immediately after the storm in 2005: New Orleans became almost overnight a smaller, whiter city with a much reduced black majority. And the results suggested that the election for mayor last year, where voting percentages were closer to pre- Katrina norms, might have been something of a fluke...."
So last year was a fluke, but this year demonstrated that clearly, everyone there hates blacks and all the blacks are now in Houston, SA, and Dallas.
See, this is called picking and choosing truths to fit your personal beliefs.
So the reason we invaded Iraq was so American companies could control Iraqi oil, so Americans could continue to drive big SUV's which use a lot of gas, so global warming could continue unabated, so we could have more Category 5 hurricanes, so we could have a major disaster in New Orleans, so we could have a large portion of its black residents displaced.
And the ultimate goal? A majority-white City Council in New Orleans!!! The neo-con cabal's work is complete.
Hey, if it's blog.....errrrrrrr.........news to Dan, it's news to America.
Maybe there's oil in them thar 9th Ward
Chocolate Oil.
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Last edited by jochhejaam; 11-21-2007 at 08:33 PM.
I am so sick of white liberals trying to pimp Blacks for their own political agendas. off!!!Yet another 'liberal conspiracy theory' comes full circle....
[B]By ADAM NOSSITER
Published: November 20, 2007
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Mission accomplished again!
Dude, white liberals know what's best for minorities. Just ask them.
There's a difference between suggesting that Bush caused the hurricane and acknowledging that race/class may have had at least a little bit to do with the slow response time in solving the problem.
I do agree with the rest of your post, however. Clearly there is currently, and was previously, tremendous racial tension in the area that has absolutely zero to do with Katrina or its aftermath.
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