Maybe those critical of New Orleans during Katrina.. [View All]

..will finally shut up after what appears to be a debacle in Texas regarding getting people out of the way of Ike. The Houston Chronicle website says 100,000 people may have stuck out the storm in that state. DU, for the most part, was very supportive of Louisiana during and after Katrina, but so far as the rest of the country goes, I've seen no end of "those people should've gotten out/what about all the buses/just proves how lazy THOSE people are" comments. Katrina was the worst natural disaster in our nation's history, and I seriously doubt any city would've handled it much better than New Orleans, given the scope of the damage. Now, a similar scenario repeats itself in Texas, and we see one of the great truisms of America: people are stand-their-ground, individualistic and dumb in every damned part of the country. Of course, it won't be fashionable nationally to bag on Texans, because I imagine most of the people affected are white. Still, there's some glimmer of hope some of the knuckle-draggers who took joy in roasting New Orleans might realize that which they criticized its citizens for is an endemic part of American life.