Federal Government spends most on Louisiana, Mississippi, Alaska

[minionofmidas]

Lousisiana/Mississippi: I'm all for getting rid of the Katrina welfare program.  How long is that going to be in the budget?

UNTIL PEOPLE STOP LIVING IN TRAILERS, DICK!

But that will be never!

People still live in trailers from the Dustbowl.

[minionofmidas]

Damn anti-Mississippi bigotry is ubiquitous.

Right, Mississippi is the only state that gets made fun of.  Nobody ever cracks a Texas joke or a South Dakota joke.

I've never in my life heard a South Dakota joke, and the occasional Texas joke is not nearly as common as the Mississippi joke.

No, it's just that New Orleans was far and away the largest city affected. You should be able to see through this, Harry.

Sure, but Mississippi never gets any coverage.  Never mind that towns on the coast were GONE after the storm...completely and utterly destroyed.  People are still living in trailers on the coast.  Compared to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, New Orleans had it easy by just getting flooded.

Lol. There's deluded, there's inane, and then there's this statement. (Doesn't of course change the fact that Mississippi got it very bad too, and that the main impact of the hurricane itself was worse there than in Louisiana.)

[minionofmidas]

Damn anti-Mississippi bigotry is ubiquitous.

Right, Mississippi is the only state that gets made fun of.  Nobody ever cracks a Texas joke or a South Dakota joke.

I've never in my life heard a South Dakota joke, and the occasional Texas joke is not nearly as common as the Mississippi joke.

No, it's just that New Orleans was far and away the largest city affected. You should be able to see through this, Harry.

Sure, but Mississippi never gets any coverage.  Never mind that towns on the coast were GONE after the storm...completely and utterly destroyed.  People are still living in trailers on the coast.  Compared to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, New Orleans had it easy by just getting flooded.

Lol. There's deluded, there's inane, and then there's this statement. (Doesn't of course change the fact that Mississippi got it very bad too, and that the main impact of the hurricane itself was worse there than in Louisiana.)

It's true.  Mississippi got hit much worse, and is still suffering much moreso, and no one does or ever did care.

Population estimates, july 1 2005 and july 1 2006.

Orleans Parish, 454K, 210K
St Bernard Parish, 65K, 14K
Plaquemines Parish, 29K, 22K
Jefferson Parish, 450K, 420K

Hancock County, 46K, 39K
Harrison County, 196K, 173K
Jackson County, 134K, 128K

Notice something?

[minionofmidas]

..and there was coverage of the Mississippi coast.  Maybe I noticed it because I was looking for it because I lived there for awhile, but it was there.  It got washed out by the media orgy that was the New Orleans floods and how Bush failed.

You played Gary Condit to their Sep 11th.

Or for a better comparison, you played Pentagon to their WTC.