You could call it a mini-diaspora. The people in New Orleans, the people along the Gulf really had a culture. In many ways, they have been thrown out of the Garden of Eden, if you will. It's a diaspora brought on for people with no resources.

Joanne Nigg

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— Joanne Nigg

The federal government must come in and provide funding for food, clothing and medical care in each place they're going to.

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State and local officials there are dealing with the beginning of recovery efforts. It's possible the teams will go to Texas [after the hurricane hits], but they'd probably come back to Delaware first.

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I wish we could buy farmland, but it doesn't seem like there are very many people looking to sell property. It's so outrageously expensive now.

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The incentives haven't worked. ... I don't feel sorry for this group of people.

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