“Amid growing concern about the city’s homicide rate and overburdened social services, a new poll finds Houstonians increasingly weary and wary of the 150,000 Louisiana evacuees who landed here after fleeing Hurricane Katrina. Additionally, two-thirds say evacuees bear responsibility for “a major increase in violent crime,” and twice as many local residents believe Houston will be “worse off” rather than “better off” if most evacuees remain here permanently.”
“These results reflect what I’m hearing from my constituents,” said U.S. Rep. John Culberson, R-Houston. “I think the percentage of people unhappy with the deadbeats from New Orleans would be larger but for the big hearts of Houstonians who want these folks to get back on their feet, as I do.”
TheStateOf . . . Hurricane Katrina Evacuees. StateOf visitor, Skyywalker, who was born and raised in New Orleans, reacted this way to the article: “Honestly, I can understand how the long-time Houston residents feel. The people who fled to Houston from New Orleans were not only the elderly and the sick…but the brokest, crummiest, most worthless inhabitants of the city. The derelicts and vagrants and the recently released from jail. New Orleans was a city of drunk drug abusers who were in and out of jail. It was hot and humid and most of the citizens who stayed after the hurricane were completely ignorant of what was really going on around them. Whenever I’d go back home I’d be reminded of how bad I could have had it if I was forced to stay around such craziness and lack of respect. I mean it’s the most ghetto experience I’ve ever had, take the worst ghetto stereotype and multiply if by 10 and that’s the New Orleans I knew. Their housing projects made the “Jungle” and “Jordan Downs” seem like Ladera Heights in comparison.”
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