What do you think NO will look like in 3 years?

[Javaman]

Given morons* success at rebuilding Iraq, what do you think will happen?

Personally, I think the well to do areas will be fine, but the repukes will spin that the poorer neighborhoods are tied down in "red tape" do to "problems" with the local Democrats. Just wait for it. I'm fully expecting the failure to rebuild on us.

[maine_raptor]

1. Halliburton signs from levee to levee

[liberal N proud]

2. Yeah, But I bet Trent Lott's house will be better than before

"Can't wait to sit on the porch"

[Craig3410]

3. WASP city.

They're going to rebuild everything to the point where only rich white republicans can afford.

[Wapsie B]

5. That's what I was thinking.

It's just not in their psyche to help the little guy at all.

[vptpt]

4. A bunch of condos

A lot of rich white people enjoying land that belonged to the not-rich for so long. Pretty much the same as the rest of America is starting to look.

[DanCa]

6. A resort spot for the rich.

[fasttense]

7. Disney Land.

[Gemini Cat]

8. Tacky rich Condos and Disney.

Very white. Blindingly white.

[tx_dem41]

9. Well...since a large part of the metropolitan area was not flooded...

I believe Downtown, French Quarter, Fauxborg Marigny, and Uptown/Garden District will be about the same. I believe Jefferson Parish, Northshore and West Bank will boom as people reconstructing the city will initially have to live there. I believe Mid-City, Lakeshore, and Gentilly neighborhoods will be rebuilt at about the same affordability scale as before although insurance will go through the roof. And, most hopefully, I believe the Lower 9th ward will be rebuilt replacing some truly horrible living conditions.

[Benhurst]

10. It will look like Seaside, Florida, where The Truman Show was filmed. NT

[Touchdown]

11. This...

Here's a preliminary layout of the city...

[otohara]

12. Similar to US Military Bases in Baghdad

and trailer park

[StellaBlue]

13. Someone beat me to it, but...

Little bit of this



And a little bit of this




:(

[NorthernSpy]

14. New Orleans will be rebuilt with the labor of its own people...

... who will return home. That's if we fight for it.

But if we just throw up our hands in defeat, then New Orleans will become a pseudo-chic, ethnically-cleansed town for the affluent (who will go there for the "ambience" -- a Disneyfied verson of the banished people's culture).

Me, I think we can win this one. But only if we understand that the right to return home is a human right, and act accordingly.


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