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Boat People: the Vietnamese community of the Gulf Coast were portrayed as hardy shrimpers who survived Katrina without government help. But that's not the whole story.
Maybe it was a window of just a day or two, but as the very first news reports of broken levees and massive flooding came in, there was a moment when it was yet unclear who, exactly, the overwhelming victims of Katrina were to be.
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But within this brief moment, there were those who could perhaps anticipate what was to come--those who knew a thing or two about New Orleans, and could glimpse the fast approaching horizon. Perhaps they went online and Googled the words "race" and "Katrina," just to see if their worst predictions were being confirmed on the Web.
At the time, they would have found exactly zero news links that ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Boat People: the Vietnamese community of the Gulf Coast were...