And here's another article that focuses on the rebuilding in Mississippi gaining steam. An upbeat article, but here's an excerpt that explains why progress was better in Mississippi:
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"The morale is higher in Mississippi about the future than in Louisiana," says Douglas Brinkley, history professor at Tulane University and author of The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, published in May. "There's a can-do spirit in Mississippi that transcends what you'll find in New Orleans."
Mississippi was luckier than Louisiana in the nature of storm damage and the effectiveness of its political response, according to Brinkley and Loren Scott, a consultant and professor emeritus at Louisiana State University who is studying the region's economic recovery.
"In Mississippi, you had the mother of all storm surges that came in and went," Scott says. "In New Orleans, there was standing water for as long as four weeks. That slowed their recovery tremendously."
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Full article:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/2006-0...rebuilds_x.htm
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