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To: SilentZ who wrote (249582)	9/5/2005 5:15:30 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1571911

This time Mr. Bush and fed support were MIA in the black neighborhoods of NO for 5 days after the disaster. You do the math. Well, I think they really just don't understand why the people in those neighborhoods didn't evacuate immediately, or as Bill Maher put it, "throw a case of Poland Spring into their Range Rovers and head out to their summer homes." When my cousin was in med school, he lived on FLA's west coast. During one hurricane, his area was under mandatory evacuation. So I asked him where he and his girlfriend were going to go. He said no where. His girlfriend was a native and her family had never evacuated for a hurricane and she wasn't about to change that 'noble' tradition. Of course, it makes no sense but that's the way people think in hurricane alley. They rather stay in their apts or homes rather than evacuate. And those are the people who can afford to evacuate. Frankly, I suspect I would be the same way. Unfortunately for the poor people in NO, they did not have a lot of choices available to them......most shelters in the rest of the state were filled by locals. So their option was family or a motel. If they didn't have family to go to, then a motel was the only choice and like most people on limited budgets, they decided to take a chance and save the money. And we're talking about the able bodied poor.......the old and the infirmed poor had no real choice. That's what scared me. Can you imagine being old and unable to move and getting caught in an hurricane and flood? Its the stuff of nightmares. It's hard to comprehend when one has spent most of his/her life with enough money to leave town when he/she wants to, but a lot of poor people can't even conceive of ever going anywhere. I read a study early in college where they'd taken people from different economic classes and had them draw maps, starting with their neighborhoods and continuing outwards, as much geography as they were readily familiar with. Invariably, wealthier people had larger geographic horizons, and their sketches demonstrated such. Exactly. Its very difficult for someone who is well educated and is comfortable financially to get inside the head of someone who is poor and less educated. Wrongly or rightly, they often see many more limitations on their lives. ted