[happyathome]

"New Orleans will shrink to nearly half its pre-hurricane population...one-third of its previous budget..."

...and one quarter of its pre-Katrina number of registered voters.

[uncitizen]

"In a city that was 67 percent African American, Nagin won by dominating the vote in majority white districts. Many of those make up the "geographic footprint" he has identified for repopulating after the hurricane, including the Garden District, the French Quarter and Uptown."

Those areas identified for repopulation are the cities bread and butter (i.e. tourist and/or tax revenue).

If the authors are implying that Nagin has identified these areas in order to get re-elected, even he isn't that dumb.

Their will be plenty of people from both parties to contest him next election. The Dumrats might be sticking by him thru this (in order to look like they're all one big happy family to get that $250 billion), but they won't support him for reelection.