Learning from the past

The New York Times published this chart comparing the demographics of San Diego county and New Orleans. Do these differences have anything to do with the differences in emergency response to these two natural disasters, or have emergency responders learned from the mistakes of the past?

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Welcome to talkingcivics, a blog for all of the students, teachers and researchers participating in Teaching for Civic Learning in Diverse Social Studies Classrooms. This is a place where all of the project participants can put up ideas, stories, news items, and anything else of interest, and get into dialogue with other project members.