WORLDS APART: Blacks and Whites React to Hurricane Katrina

摘要: Hurricane Katrina was a natural disaster that destroyed New Orleans, major U.S. city, and it is reasonable to expect all Americans react with sympathy support for the disaster’s victims efforts restore city. From another vantage point, however, can be seen more narrowly, as disproportionately afflicted poor Black inhabitants of Orleans. Past research demonstrates large racial divide in issues clear overtones, we examine possibility reactions using data from national telephone survey White Americans. We find differences hurricane’s victims, adequacy federal government’s response, proposed solutions mend hurricane-ravaged verifying nature disaster. Blacks viewed hurricane positively than did Whites, drew sharper distinction between felt those stranded who evacuated were substantially supportive government improve situation rebuild This gap any observed recent polls; persists even after controlling education, income, other possible differences; documents fully hinted at public opinion polls reported time spell out implications this divisions within politics generally.