<p>Blaming the working poor underclass for the state of Louisiana is the height of arrogant ignorance. No Fortune 500 company in their right mind would relocate to New Orleans even if it turns white, crime free and Republican overnight. </p>
<p>Here’s why:</p>
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<p>Read it and weep.</p>
<p><a href=“http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article311818.ece[/url]”>http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article311818.ece</a></p>
<p>Of course, there were many predictions that financial firms would not return to NY after 9/11 either.</p>
<p>Manhattan, last time I lived there, would not come close to being classified as “one of America’s most polluted industrial areas.”</p>
<p>If American wants to do something truly constructive for southern Louisiana, it could relocate those 66 petro chemical plants and clean up the toxic waste left after decades of operation. That would do more to transform New Orleans than relocating a few hundred thousand African Americans.</p>
<p>It is going to be more than 200,000 I imagine, looking at all the people and the states involved</p>
<p>Just for your information folks, lower Manhattan HAS NOT recovered from the economic free fall following the terrorist attack. As Casey Stengel said, “you don’t have to take my word for it; you can look it up.”</p>
<p>As for NOLA, yes its severe structural economic flaws were long ignored or glossed over, particulary every Mardi Gras season and during every Superbowl game hosted by the city. And yes, the Louisiana public has long suffered from flamboyantly crooked politicians, whom the poor had little power to discard. Don’t forget the notoriously corrupt police.</p>