Krugman: "Tragedy in Black and White" (full column on pkarchive.org)

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http://www.pkarchive.org/ (click on "Columns")

By three to one, African-Americans believe that federal aid took so long to arrive in New Orleans in part because the city was poor and black. By an equally large margin, whites disagree.

The truth is that there's no way to know. Maybe President Bush would have been mugging with a guitar the day after the levees broke even if New Orleans had been a mostly white city. Maybe Palm Beach would also have had to wait five days after a hurricane hit before key military units received orders to join rescue operations.

But in a larger sense, the administration's lethally inept response to Hurricane Katrina had a lot to do with race. For race is the biggest reason the United States, uniquely among advanced countries, is ruled by a political movement that is hostile to the idea of helping citizens in need.

Race, after all, was central to the emergence of a Republican majority: essentially, the South switched sides after the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Today, states that had slavery in 1860 are much more likely to vote Republican than states that didn't. ...

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1. Dang, Can You Please Give Me A Link That Doesn't Leave Me Floundering?

As in, what in particular are you talking about?

Unlike some here at DU, I'm trying to figure out what you're talking about so that I can report it to other people. Please advise. Chrs

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2. Tough Site -- OK

Don't let me get you down. I can be a nasty pain in the ass. It's my job.

[highplainsdem]

3. Sorry if that link was confusing. The way that archive is set up,

you have to click on "Columns" -- as I'd said -- on the left side of the page to see the list of Krugman's archived NYT columns, with the newest one (for 9/19) at the top. You can go to that column directly at http://www.pkarchive.org/column/091905.html , but I posted the link for the main page since it's so easy to get to the list of columns from it, and I thought Krugman fans would want that link so they could check for the newest columns without being given specific links again and again. This archive site is free, and it's especially useful now.