Katrina Dead Demographics Released

MetroSource News | 12/05/05 | MetroSource Staff

[prisoner6]

Sorry no link to the story. I retyped it from a story on a newswire where I work. MetroSoure News is a Westwood One company and available only to radio and televeision stations and other news outlets.

prisoner6

[Lokibob]

i wonder how that compares to the demographics of NO as a whole.

[coconutt2000]

Somebody is going to claim that bodies were switched from other cities to balance it out.

[alnick]

i wonder how that compares to the demographics of NO as a whole.

There were dead from other Louisiana locations as well.

[browardchad]

Race is only one factor in demographics. Gender and age might be informative, but I guess the media's not interested in those relatively boring stats.

[gitmo]

Well, that seems fair. < /DemocratLogic>

[Izzy Dunne]

about half are white and half are black. About half are men and about half are women.

You know, if ALL the dead women were black and ALL the dead men were white, this would still be accurate.

[longtermmemmory]

The story will be burried. Not even FNC will cover it.

[TankerKC]

Race is only one factor in demographics. Gender and age might be informative, but I guess the media's not interested in those relatively boring stats.

From the story: "About half are men and about half are women."

[Loyal Buckeye]

MSM's demographic analysis: So poor, so black.

[mtbopfuyn]

MSM's demographic analysis: So poor, so black.

Ok, 50% were black women and 50% were poor white men.

And as for the headline: Katrina Blanco/Nagin Dead Demographics Released.

[jeffers]

I'd like to find out where they died, by number, from which Parish or area.

[bonfire]

And HOW they died.

[MarkT]

From the story it is unclear whether these were Orleans Parish deaths or greater New Orleans (SMSA) deaths. If the former, then a larger percentage of whites died relative to the Orleans Parish population (Cau. c33%, Neg. c67%). If it is an SMSA statistic, then a slightly larger percentage of blacks died relative to SMSA population. Do not have those in my mind but the SMSA is probably around 60% Cau. and 40% Neg.).

[jeffers]

From the AP photos (a small statistical sample) the young males died of violence, the elderly died of thirst and shock in "shelters" and in attics, and the out of shape died escaping the flood.

[JoeSixPack1]

Day be profilin' da dead peeps.

What's next? A call for volunteer voters maybe?

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

In all , the morgue set up to process bodies after the hurricane has recorded one-thousand-90 deaths. Of those, less than 500 have been returned to their next of kin. Officials are still finding bodies.

This is a quagmire. It's time to cut and run.

[The Toll]

I would imagine that the vast majority of these deaths aren't from Louisiana but from Mississippi where the hurricane went.

[yankeedame]

And HOW they died.

Bingo!

[Mila]

"I would imagine that the vast majority of these deaths aren't from Louisiana but from Mississippi where the hurricane went."

The information posted is coming out of St.Gabriel,Louisiana where was a special morgue was set up to handle the bodies of Louisiana victims. I believe the number stated refers to those victims.