New Orleans Retains a Black Majority

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Source: AP

New Orleans Retains a Black Majority
By JOHN MORENO GONZALES | Associated Press Writer
12:12 AM EDT, September 12, 2007

NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans is narrowly retaining a black majority after Hurricane Katrina, according to a study released Wednesday by The Brookings Institution.

The study determined that while blacks left the city at a much faster rate than whites, New Orleans was still 58 percent black during 2006. Before Katrina, which hit Aug. 29, 2005, the city was 67 percent black, according to the U.S. census.

"It's certainly still a predominantly African-American city," said William Frey, a demographer and senior fellow at Washington, D.C.-based Brookings. "Speculation that there was not going to be a black majority in the city is not true, according to these estimates."

While several studies have examined utility hookups and postal deliveries to estimate the population that has returned to New Orleans since Katrina, The Brookings Institution study is the first comprehensive look at the shifting demographics since the storm.

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1. Guess that means the rethugs will have to try harder next time

What Bush did to those poor people in New Orleans is nothing short of attempted genocide - of American citizens, no less!