Racially Neutral Hurricane

The bodies of New Orleans residents killed by Hurricane Katrina were almost as likely to be recovered from middle-class neighborhoods as from the city's poorer districts, such as the Lower 9th Ward, according to a Times analysis of data released by the state of Louisiana.

LA Times Link.

That simply can't be. I seem to remember Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson saying that the blacks bore the brunt. Those guys never have bad facts.

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