Re: Katrina and the Evacuation of the Poor and Infirm: Market Failure?

[AdmrlLocke]

In a message dated 9/7/05 9:56:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I think this sort of wanton lawlessness didn't start
until the summers during the Vietnam War in the late
60s.<

There were riots in New York City during the Civil
War.

Fred Foldvary

Yes, anti-draft riots, though I don't know the degree to which people killed other people and stole their property.  Lots of Americans came to American to escape conscription, so it's natural that Americans would  have been hostile to it.  Wilson avoided the riots by putting the responsibility for drafting in the hands of locals.  I'm looking more for a natural disaster and whether Americans followed it with widespread looting, rape and murder.