"Researchers at Louisiana State University surveyed more than 2,000 residents in New Orleans and other parts of southwestern Louisiana by phone in July and August and found that white residents were considerably more positive about the state’s recovery across a range of topics — the economy, the state of public schools and readiness for another storm — than their African-American neighbors.
Over 40 percent of white New Orleans residents and just 20 percent of African-Americans said their quality of life was generally better now than before Hurricane Katrina struck in August 2005...
Among the nearly one-quarter of current residents who have moved to New Orleans since Katrina, a majority — 56 percent — are white, and many have relatively high levels of income and education. Only 40 percent of the new residents are African-American, the study found.
Black residents have had a far harder time returning to their homes since the storm, the study found. Whereas 70 percent of white residents were able to do so within one year, only 42 percent of African-Americans could."
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/8/24/study-black-residents-of-new-orleans-more-critical-of-recovery.html
Related: "Race and the Storm"
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