To: KLP who wrote (437778 ) 7/29/2011 10:02:50 AM From: Brumar89 Respond to I don't think you can tell who's from NO and who isn't anymore. I guess some have gone back, some of the problem ones are in prison, people who aren't a problem and stayed here are just ordinary citizens now. Houston has been absorbing people from Louisiana and everywhere else for decades. Nearly 250,000 people from the Greater New Orleans area permanently moved to Texas in 2005, after the storm. ..... The problem is, his plan isn’t legal. Federal law requires the Bureau to count every U.S. resident on April 1, wherever they are. Nobody’s sure how many people live in New Orleans these days. Most estimates show the city lost half its population after Katrina. ..... "As for the mayor of New Orleans and all that, I’m sorry. I just think that’s silly. I can’t come up with a better word," Harris County Judge Ed Emmett said. "Anybody who lives in Harris County on the date of the Census is counted in Harris County. And as for the Katrina evacuees, and I say this not entirely jokingly, I don’t think there is such a thing anymore. Once somebody has lived in our community for three or four years, they’re part of the community," Emmett added. ..... Curtis Green agrees. "I would never move my family back to New Orleans. You know, we’re fine here. And we’re looking at spending the rest of our lives here," he said. Green now works as a chef in downtown Houston. Since the storm, he’s gone back to school. He also has political aspirations – all things possible because he’s in Houston. "We owe it to Houston to stay here and be vibrant and continue to add to what they already have," Green said. "This is home. We want to be known as Houstonians." khou.com chron.com
