Observations on the flooding in North Dakota

From the news on my idiot box at home and all over the web, I have noticed a couple of things in North Dakota which paint a striking contrast to what we saw after Katrina hit Louisiana:

1. no belly aching about FEMA
2. no whining about government handouts
3. no finger pointing
4. community togetherness
5. an absence of crime
6. pride
7. bravery
8. a “can do” attitude
9. no Presidential visit
10. and something I thought was an endangered species – the American Spirit

And finally, and one more thing I think is a very important difference between Katrina and the flooding we see today, North Dakota is a RED STATE going back several elections. (This is also true when you look at how Texas, another red state, handles hurricanes.)

I can assure you, Katrina would have not been the disaster it was had it occurred in Fargo, North Dakota (or any other “red state” in Middle America for that matter). It takes smart voters to avoid a Nagin/Blanco/Landrieu-like circus of impotence, incompetence and stupidity.

Can you picture the people of the Ninth Ward doing this? Can you see people like this crying about the President’s failure to act fast enough for them? Can you see these people blaming their misfortune on the government?

Neither can I.

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