NY Times on the stay vs. return decision for NOLA evacuees in Houston
Here. I do think the city will take a substantial short-term population hit as many refuse to return, but as long as jobs are generated (port, oil & gas, tourism, construction), people will go there - whether they are from there originally or new arrivals mostly from rural Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.
posted by Tory Gattis @ 9:41 AM
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New Orleans will always be there, simply because there needs to be a port at the mouth of the Mississippi River and it is a key energy-producing region. But I think it is a given that "Newer Orleans" is going to be considerably smaller in population than it was. I wouldn't be surprised if Baton Rouge eventually emerges as Louisiana's largest and most important city, since a lot of people and businesses from New Orleans have migrated there already.
It will be interesting to look back twenty, thirty, fifty years from now and see what effect this disaster ultimately had.
Thomas
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