How do they know the folks at the Superdome & Conv Ctr are poor?

[TNDemo]

After 5-6 days of no food and water and wading through floods, people with a million dollar home and homeless people look alike. Of course they are all about in the same boat now unless it was banked and not in their property. I am sure not every person of means evacuated. A lot of those people might have wanted to stay to protect what they had and when things got so bad they had no choice but to go to the Superdome or Convention Center. Every time I watch the news people still in the city seem to be described as the poor who could not afford to evacuate. Maybe they are just considered poor because they are mostly black. Maybe the word has not gotten out that black people can be monied too. This has just opened up so many issues...

[BlueEyedSon]

1. The people with the million-dollar homes got in their $50k cars and left

before the sh!t hit the fan....

[elehhhhna]

2. A Diplomat from Spain was in the SD w/ his wife. Bet they aren't poor.

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. It was a diplomat from Spain with her husband, and they were removed

and taken to safety a few days ago. :hi:

[elehhhhna]

12. A female diplomat! How "old europe"! thx for the clarif.

[Vincardog]

3. I doubt any millionaires are are riding busses to Texas to steal

a handout. What kind of question is that? Are you afraid of helping somebody who does not really need it?

[TNDemo]

5. Good grief, no.

It just seemed like stereotyping to me.

[Vincardog]

11. I think if your house got blown away and your car flooded out

and you are sitting in he same cloths for a week without a bath you can be considered really poor.

[MissMarple]

4. Some may be tourists and parents bringing their kids to college.

The majority may be poor, but I'm betting there are many different income and educational levels represented by those stranded in New Orleans and those locked into the Convention Center.

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. They said this morning that there are people with jobs and mortgages

at the convention center.

[Rainscents]

9. Yes, that's only very few... most are poor, elderly and poor disable

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. I completely agree. It's a disgrace.

:hi: I was just answering the question. :hi:

[MissMarple]

8. This was just posted on another thread. "The People of the Dome"

"Some tourists in the Monteleone Hotel paid $25,000 for 10 buses. The buses were sent (I guess there were many buses available, if you paid the price!) but the military confiscated them (!) and would not let the people leave. Instead, the military ordered them to the now-infamous Convention Center.

"http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4608801