Is the Mississippi Coast invisible?
When the White House recently announced the president would be visiting New Orleans and the “hurricane damaged” areas of the Gulf Coast in mid-October, in accordance with a campaign pledge, our immediate thought was we better get ready.
But since the initial notice was lacking additional facts, the Biloxi (Miss.) Sun Herald asked the White House press office directly will he be coming to South Mississippi? The response was brief: “The president will be going to New Orleans.”
The president’s decision, or that of his advisers and inner circle, to visit the one place and not the other, underscores the persisting observation that South Mississippi has faded into obscurity, and that the consequence of four years of the Katrina narrative development is invisibility, even to the president of the United States.
McClatchy
10/14/9
