Re: I'd like to qualify this statement by saying I do NOT know much about Katrina, but my
You are exactly, exactly right about the poverty issue. There is one way, though, that race was undeniably a factor in who got hit the hardest - New Orleans was racally segregated for a very long time, and up until very recently (within the lifetime of most of it's residents or their parents). Guess who did and didn't get the high ground when the lines were drawn up?