What will be the Racial Makeup of a New New Orleans?

Well-off and living on higher ground, many of New Orleans' white residents are counting on their city to be rebuilt without much of the former black population returning.

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September 19, 2005, 1:00 PM PDT

By Michael Dudley

"As the U.S. government embarks on one of the largest peacetime reconstruction programs in history, the geographic shape and demographic texture of a rebuilt New Orleans is still an open question. Despite President George W. Bush's vow that New Orleans will rise again, the city that emerges over the next decade will likely be a lot smaller. And chances are that it will be a lot whiter."

FULL STORY: Rebuilt city likely to be a lot smaller -- and whiter

Monday, September 19, 2005 in The Globe and Mail

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