McClatchy has an eye popping report about the Katrina dead that challenges most right wing myths.
It turns out the dead were 71% elderly and only 51% black. These were not exactly the rif-raf and welfare queens that Rush, Hannity et al made them out to be.
Katrina toll: Dead weren't disproportionately poor or black
Here's Rush back on September 1, 2005:
The non-black population was just as devastated, but apparently they were able to get out, and the black population wasn't able to get out. Maybe New Orleans has a half decent mass transit people and some of these people don't need cars.
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