Laurie was wondering re democratic-voting counties (they're
actually parishes down here, not counties.)
Louisiana was most assuredly a Red state in the last presidential
election. St. Tammany Parish, which took the brunt of the eye, is
about as conservative as you can get, and we sat down here and
waited for troops and aid for far too long. I've been on search and
recovery teams for the past several days. The first day I went out
we had four teams. The next, eight. Finally on Monday we got a
buttload of troops in and we were able to expand out to over 20
teams to do the house-to-house searches. This was a week after the
storm hit.
The other thing to realize is that over half of the deputies from
Slidell lost their houses--and they are still out there working the
streets and giving aid.
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