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Business elite hopes for a future without the poor
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| Last Edited | RP Sep 09, 2005 11:53am |
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| News Date | Friday, September 9, 2005 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | COULD the new New Orleans be a place of low poverty, low crime, good schools and minimal racial tension? Some affluent exiles, all white, hope so. In a private meeting in Dallas yesterday they urged the mayor, Ray Nagin, to embrace a controversial vision that could transform the city from a Democratic stronghold into a Republican one.
It would be rebuilt “in a completely different way: demographically, geographically and politically,” James Reiss, an electronics magnate, told The Wall Street Journal. “The way we’ve been living is not going to happen again.”
As the great pump-out continues, the great rethink has begun. Everyone agrees that Hurricane Katrina is an opportunity as well as a disaster, but few have had the nerve to suggest that the mass exodus of the city’s overwhelmingly black poor may be part of that opportunity. |
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