I have never lived in nor have I ever visited New Orleans. I don't first-hand know its sights, sounds or people. I must ask: What was it in that city that, after the storm had passed, quickly made men embrace savagery? What caused people there to rape and to murder, to steal from the desperate, to loot things unconnected to survival? What caused organized groups of people to attempt murder on those coming to save them? Why didn't their neighbors - the good people- band together to stop them from doing those things? The answer is simple: For the last forty years they had been taught by the creators of the Welfare State that they were permanently absolved from the responsibility of tending to their lives. Or as simple as they just moved the ghetto indoors? There's a reason there are bars on every window and door in New Orleans. If people actually think some of those elements of lawlessness don't exsist regularly in the ghettos, they are nuts. People may not have taken food water and medicine to the Superdome, but they took the crack pipes.
This is the sort of thing that goes on in the ghettos. It just happens that the spotlight was on it.
On the plantation, the masters will see to every need. Oh, it a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud....