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The media is missing the real race and poverty story of Katrina

The Washington Post reports:

Hurricane Katrina has thrust the twin issues of race and poverty at President Bush, who faces steep challenges in dealing with both because of a domestic agenda that envisions deep cuts in long-standing anti-poverty programs and relationships with many black leaders frayed by years of mutual suspicion.

In the storm's aftermath, the White House has been scrambling to quell perceptions that race was a factor in the slow federal response to Katrina and that its policies have contributed to the festering poverty propelled into public view by the disaster.

By focusing on the problems caused by state and local officials failing to evacuate New Orleans poor and blaming Bush, the Post misses what has happened at the end of their ride out of Louisiana. In Texas where around 250,000 relocated to, every statewide office is held by Republicans. In Harris County the County Judge/CEO is a Republican. The only Democrat of any significance in the evacuation is the Houston Mayor. The ancedotal evidence is that most of these evacuees are grateful for their treatment in Texas and many have said they are never going back. It has been similar in every state where these people have been taken. The charity and warmth they have received has been overwhelming and the Washington Post and other liberal media organizations have missed it because they have been too focused on the spiel of the race hustlers in the Democrat party and not paying attention to the facts on the ground.

It is the Democrats who will be the big loser in the diaspora. They are going to lose at least one congressional seat in Louisiana and they are also going to lose the votes that have made the Democrats competitive in statewide offices in Louisiana. It was also the Democrats who really failed these people not only in the evacuation process, but also in keeping them economically deprived and on their plantation for the last 50 years. Once off that plantation, with a view of the real opportunities offered in states where Republicans are in charge they are unlikely to ever want to return.

Right now the Democrats are doing wht they do best. Point fingers and dodge responsibility. They did it after making a mess of Vietnam, and people still do not trust them with national security. The same thing should happen to them as the facts come out on Katrina. While the mainstream media is still pimping their bad read on the facts, they no longer have a monopoly. Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives on talk radio, along with conservative blogs can fight back with facts. They will have a tough time hiding those busses in the flood water that could have taken the poor blacks out of harm's way. The story will get out about the state officials who kept the Red Cross and Salvation Army from delivering relief supplies to New Orleans after the hurricane.