There does have to be a suspicion that things would have been different in Seattle, but maybe that's just because New Orleans is disorganised rather than the south is racist. I find it rather hard to imagine that any federal agencies were on Miller time just because it was blacks in the water.
What did strike me was the incredible class element. Here we have this mass of people too poor to own their own cars, pay for alternative accomodation, or any of those things, and no one seems to have planned a damn thing to do about them. (And that is a state and city matter) Some people even suggested it was their fault, overlooking the fact that they had no means of transport and nowhere to go.
This would never have happened in the so-called class divided UK.
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