Transcript: Analysis: Baton Rouge struggles with New Orleans' displaced

MADELEINE BRAND
NPR Special
09-08-2005
Analysis: Baton Rouge struggles with New Orleans' displaced

Host: MADELEINE BRAND
Time: 4:00-5:00 PM

MADELEINE BRAND, host:

The city of Baton Rouge might be more accurately called the city of Orleans Rouge, it has absorbed so many displaced people from New Orleans. The new residents live in the homes of their friends and family members and in shelters that house as many as 3,000 people. Baton Rouge has been both generous to and suspicious of the new residents. NPR's Mike Pesca reports.

MIKE PESCA reporting:

BRAND: It's not that Baton Rouge hasn't privately and publicly housed tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of New Orleanians. It's just ...

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