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Katrina's Diaspora
The victims Of Hurricane Katrina have filed for assistance from
FEMA from every state. The map shows the distribution
and number of the 1.36 million individual
assistance applications as of Sept. 23.
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• 1,574
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13
Boston 1 .186
New Yolk 4.186
Philadelphia
1.562
Washington
Number Of
applications
from selected
metropolitan
areas
Los Angeles
4.435
San Diego
Phoenix •
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Tucson
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El Paso •
Honolulu
05
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ft. WorihS
San Antoniå•
6.035 • 9'
Atlanta
29.252
Jacksonville
2.797
Orlando
2,693
Counties from which
families filed applications
Circles are sized according
to the number of applica.
tions from a ZIP code
5,000•••
1,000
100,
Houston
84.749
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They are scattered through all 50 States,
the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico —
623 in Utah, 1,114 in Kansas, 101 way out in
Alaska. They are clustered by the thou-
sands in large Southern cities like Dallas,
Atlanta and Memphis, and huddled in
handfuls in unlikely hamlets like Shell
Knob, MO. (pop. Fountain Run,
Ky_ (pop. 236) _
Evacuees fled Hurricane Katrina and
the floods that followed in caravans of cars
and fleets Of buses, on helicopters and
chartered planes, by boat and, a few, on
foot. A month after the storm. a map
Corpus Christi
1,169
centers. On average, the applicants came
from counties where blacks were 28 percent
of the population, more than twice the
national average.
Baton Rouge, La. , appears to be
temporary home to 10 percent of evacuees,
Houston 6.25 percent. But after the top 18
hubs, applicants are spread like the Wind
that whipped through their old neighbor-
hoods: none of the other 900-plus metro-
politan areas has even I percent of the total.
Some 4,000 ZIP codes — among them
Pocahontas, Miss.; Promise City, Iowa;
and Hope, Mich. — had just one applicant.
Ft. Walton
Beach
3.343
New Orleans 183,617
80
Anlications by state
emerges Of where they landed, based on
ZIP codes from which applications for aid
were submitted to the Federal Emergency
Management Agency as of Sept. 23.
Of 1356,704 applications, 86 percent
came from Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas
and Alabama. But 35,539 families were
more than 1,000 miles from the Gulf —
among the farthest: One in Nome, Alaska,
3,931 miles from the French Quarter and
another in Lihue, Hawaii, 4,279 miles away.
Residents Of New Orleans, a city that
was two-thirds black, seem to have flocked
to the nation's African-American population
386%
28.3%
11.6%
26%
2.3%
1.1%
08%
0.5%
5.4%
Tampa
2,907
Miami
Ft. Lauderdale
MILES
0-100
100-200
200.400
400-800
800-1600
3,200+
by from New Orleans
Louisiana
Mississippi
Texas
Alabama
Georgia
Florida
Tennessee
Arkansas
California
Illinois
Others
523,149
383.840
156.895
109,469
35,342
31.005
15.529
11,027
10.953
6.430
73,065
APPLICANTS
626.232
338.080
184,
143,497
45.371
13,403
232
PCT
46.2%
24.9%
106%
cent o'
Census Ccaege
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