Nearly seven months after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans and forced out hundreds of thousands of residents, most evacuees say they have not found a permanent place to live, have depleted their savings and consider their life worse than before the hurricane, according to interviews with more than 300 evacuees conducted by The New York Times.

The interviews suggested that while blacks and whites suffered similar rates of emotional trauma, blacks bore a heavier economic and social burden. And even as both groups flounder, most said they believed that the rest of the nation, and politicians in Washington, have moved on.

“I don’t think anybody cares, really,” said Robert Rodrigue, a semiretired computer programmer who has returned to his home in the suburb of Metairie. “New Orleans is kind of like at the bottom of the country, and they just forget about us.”
nytimes.com

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