Get Ready for a New Orleans Population Explosion

The mayor of New Orleans, who has ordered the removal of all the Confederate memorials in the city, including street names, says that he existence of those memorials is why New Orleans has lost so much population over the past twelve years.  It’s not that 86% of the city was flooded after the government levees failed during Hurricane Katrina, or the destruction of thousands of homes and businesses during the storm, or the rampant violent crime that followed, or the loss of hundreds of police.  It was the Robert E. Lee statue.

So it stands to reason that the mayor had better begin planning for a population explosion in his city now that all the monuments are gone.  One question, though:  Some of those monuments have been there for over 100 years, during times of large population increases.  Would this contradict the mayor’s theory?  One thing the theory does have going for it is the mayor’s claim that the city has lost many of its “best and brightest” citizens because of the existence of those monuments.  After all, the remaining less-than-the-brightest residents did elect him as their mayor.

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