September 15, 2005
The Long Reach of History

Posted by John Steele Gordon at 11:20 AM  EST

Michael Barone, of US News and World Report, has a fascinating blog entry, “Folkways” (http://www.usnews.com/usnews/opinion/baroneblog/home.htm) on how the different cultures that settled New York and New Orleans caused different responses to disaster. Too much can be made of this, of course, but so can too little.

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