The Great Katrina Migration

In just 14 days, the hurricane caused the largest dislocation the US has seen in 150 years.

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September 12, 2005, 9:00 AM PDT

"Two weeks after it blew through the US Gulf Coast, it's clear that hurricane Katrina has resulted in the largest displacement of Americans in 150 years - if not the largest ever. The scale is monumental. It's as if the entire Dust Bowl migration occurred in 14 days, or the dislocations caused by the Civil War took place on fast-forward.

...'This is the biggest resettlement in American history. A whole city has been uprooted,' says Stephen Kleinberg, a sociology professor at Rice University in Houston."

FULL STORY: The great Katrina migration

Sunday, September 11, 2005 in The Christian Science Monitor

Social / Demographics United States

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