Keep in mind the surrounding area of new orleans and its suburbs holds over a million people...does Miss?
Well when they say that "The buildings in New Orleans are still standing; the Gulf Coast of Mississippi basically has been scrubbed, like God took out a pencil eraser and just erased it." Mississippi has a state population of 2.8 million, and Gulfport and Biloxi are pretty much gone, and those are the 2nd and 3rd largest cities. (http://www.50states.com/mississi.htm)
I couldnt get the gulfport page to come up but on Biloxi's page it shows the population with a median income of 34,106. The high school graduate rate is 81.9% meanwhile in 1999 New Orleans reported 27.9% of people living there were below the poverty line and meanwhile only 23.4% have graduated high school. This makes it more diffcult for these people to evacuate because as most of them are under the poverty line they have no where to go and nothing to pay for food and water leaving them forced to loot from local stores. Im sure that 99% of the looting going on is looting done to survive...they arent taking nike's out of those stores. That makes it a little more difficult to manage when you are dealing with people who dont want to leave the city even after a disaster.
http://factfinder.census.gov/
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http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd...s/22/
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Just because the people of the Mississippi aren't as poor as New Orleans doesn't mean that they didn't lose anything. Lots of the Mississippians stayed because they could never imagine something worse then Hurricane Camile.
"Im sure that 99% of the looting going on is looting done to survive...they arent taking nike's out of those stores."
Did you see the many videos of people looting big screen TVs and other expensive items? I take it not.
What are they gonna do with those tvs? Float them down the river??? lol
I don't know, but that means they aren't looting for mere survival.
Is there any idea how much non-surival looting is taking place like has the news said anything about that
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Well, shooting at rescue copters and National Guard members doesn't seem like survival, and looting for survival wouldn't warrent combat operations to retake the city. People who acquire necessary goods and water for survival would be those who would welcome help, not try to shoot at it.
I read an article that talked about how people were shooting at the national guard over frustration that they were being left behind...I cant remember where I read it...I might have even seen it on the today show.
Right, because reporters got close enough to those guys with guns to ask them about their motivations.
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