Mike wrote:
New Orleans is manageable with the right funding and engineering
knowledge, being heavily populated by blacks doesn't help secure the
right funding though, if it were somewhere "paler" then you could
guarantee the money would be provided.


What is with this steady race drumbeat?.......The state is only 1/3
minority...does this mean that the 2/3 white population is somehow deprived
racially as well?

Incidentally Louisiana earns a billion and half annually from Gulf
oil/natural gas royalties, maybe some of that windfall should be put to
proper use. Rod