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Poverty: Post-Katrina critics constantly remind us that those who remained in New Orleans were largely black and poor. What they don't tell us is that they were largely women and children.
Never mind that had Katrina roared through Appalachia, those stranded would have been largely white and poor. Race and poverty have been inextricably linked in the media and the Democratic caucus with the less-than-stellar post-Katrina effort.
Yet poverty is not a function of race, but of class. Common traits exist among the nonpoor -- most are married and most...
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