The race to disperse

Does it strike you as odd that those evacuated from News Orleans, those left behind, those who are primarily poor and black, are being scattered across the United States? Last night I heard a report of some ending up in Alaska of all places? What's the plan behind this plan? I'm starting to wonder whether the thought of having too many angry, dispossessed African Americans housed in one area (say for instance someplace a wee bit closer to home) is perceived by government officials as a threat to civil security. If this is the case, then it is yet another example of institutional or subconscious racism. If you spread them out, you mute the collective outrage. Call it a hunch.... Digby pursues this angle a lot more thoroughly than me. I think he's onto something. There's some kind of racist undercurrent to this that's unsettling.