So Much for Equality of Suffering--UpdatedWell, the
NY Times notwithstanding, ABC News is going with a
little class warfare:
Hurricane Katrina ravaged much of the Gulf Coast, but it was especially cruel to the poor.
In New Orleans, a third of the residents live below the poverty line. The very poorest live on the lowest land, south of Lake Pontchartrain, where the floodwater is now up to their rooftops.Update: Good
counter-arguments here (even if he did trackback without linking, a mistake I made myself this morning). A case can be made that the poor
are harder hit, but would it be a story if the rich were harder hit?