Thursday, June 08, 2006

Poor, Young, and Minorities hardest hit

The poor and young were the most likely to leave New Orleans (of course economocially that is what one would suspect. From the Census Dept. via USA Today:

"Hurricane Katrina drained the New Orleans metropolitan area of almost 40% of its residents and left the region with a whiter, wealthier and older population, according to the first Census Bureau estimates since the devastating flooding.

The special survey released today shows the New Orleans area, made up of seven parishes, became 73% white in the months after the hurricane Aug. 29, up from about 59% before the storm....The median age increased by about four years, and the median annual income rose from $39,793 to $43,447.

"This confirms what some people thought: There was a selective out-migration of poorer minorities," says William Frey, a demographer with the Brookings Institution.

The survey provides only estimates and is not official."

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