[Congressman Billybob]

No, the (current) low-lying areas will, over the course of about two decades, become a smaller city with no remaining low-lying areas.

However, your conclusion is correct. Most of its eventual population will be people with jobs who can afford the necessarily higher prices of homes in the new New Orleans.

So, yes, it will become a much "redder" City.

John / Billybob

[Enchante]

"people with jobs who can afford the necessarily higher prices of homes in the new New Orleans"

Excellent column!! The libs will scream about wanting to drag 150,000 poor people back in as soon as possible for so-called purposes of 'fairness' and 'diversity' and 'tradition' but you are 110% correct that it is relatively EXPENSIVE to live safely in a place like NOLA and that the re-building must be done in a way that is RATIONAL and that requires massive levees, landfills, higher construction (more expensive), uses of steel and concrete, etc. Yes, it is a FACT OF LIFE that to live in a place located where NOLA is located is relatively expensive, unless you want to ensure being washed away periodically. NOLA will be rebuilt in a more rational way as (initially, at least) a much smaller and wealthier per capita city, or else we will just re-create conditions for the next disaster....

[GSlob]

"...in the new New Orleans."
It will be New and Improved Orleans. In more than one sense.