US - Katrina: Gov Purposely Kept Blacks in N.O.?

That's what this sounds like.

"You send that many black folks out of state, we will have a perception problem," Blanco assistant chief of staff Johnny Anderson wrote in a September 2 e-mail.

"Word is already that we are only sending blacks out of this state," Anderson wrote. "We are make (sic) a strategic error. FEMA will not have to answer to the people, we will."

Is that why the buses weren't used?

Now that the demographics are out, it's interesting to note that the racial profile of the dead was 48% black vs 41% white. Especially when you consider that N.O. was 67% black and 28% white.
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