I made a drive from Houston to Panama City in Novemver ‘05 just a couple of months after Katrina. Though Miss, there were big tent cities right off the interstate. Right out in the open and very visible. No media coverage at all except local. Coastal Mississippi got the brunt of Katrina.
All the news coverage was on the lower ninth ward.
New Orleans east is about 100 times the size of the lower ninth and got just as hammered. No media there.
Difference, NO East and coastal Mississippi is populated with hard working taxpayers. The upper coast of Texas got hit by a much bigger storm last year and we are mostly cleaned up. There is still storm damage in New Orleans after 4 years.
I was there in January of 2006, with a friend who lived in New Orleans, and he was shccked silly by the sight of the devastation to Mississippi — living only an hour away, he had had no idea.