If Katrina wiped out Kenebunkport or Newport, RI how quick...

[Postman]

would the federal response have been?

[Vektor]

1. Or better yet, Asheville, NC?

Affluent, white, and in a red state.

The response would have made one's head spin.

[niallmac]

2. Bush with a bull horn, flags at half mast and we would bomb

some third world nation just for the hell of it. Apologies to Chavez but he knows what i'm talking about,.

[Javaman]

3. they would have had exact duplicates of all the buildings ready....

[stepnw1f]

4. Exactly...

Could you imagine all those poor rich pasty white men and women screaming for aid? Begging even?

hmmmmmm... That would be a really good thing. Reversing roles is actually very healthy in teaching a lesson.

[Redstone]

5. No faster. Incompetence knows no boundaries.

Besides which, although I get the point you're trying to make, Kennebunkport (two N's) doesn't have near as many people as New Orleans.

And this is a subject / question that's been beaten to death and beyond here lately.

Redstone