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Private First Class Aaron Powell of the 82d Airborne Division watched as residents loaded trash onto a truck in the French Quarter, preparing for its reopening.

Working class exodus feared in New Orleans

By Raja Mishra and Sasha Talcott
Globe Staff / September 18, 2005

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NEW ORLEANS -- The affluent areas of this city are humming with activity as reconstruction efforts pick up tempo, but many of the black working-class and poor neighborhoods remain deluged in noxious flood water or coated in its putrid residue and populated mostly by dragonflies and National Guardsmen. (Full article: 1870 words)

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