Most of these people don't have jobs to go back to because New Orleans is gone. They're going to have to come up with a system to get money coming in so they can maintain themselves. |
State and local officials there are dealing with the beginning of recovery efforts. It's possible the teams will go to Texas [after the hurricane hits], but they'd probably come back to Delaware first. |
The federal government must come in and provide funding for food, clothing and medical care in each place they're going to. |
You could call it a mini-diaspora. The people in New Orleans, the people along the Gulf really had a culture. In many ways, they have been thrown out of the Garden of Eden, if you will. It's a diaspora brought on for people with no resources. |