“Barbara Bush: Things working out ‘very well’ for poor evacuees from New Orleans.” Editor & publisher, September 5, 2005.

The former first lady is pleased by the way that the refugees from New Orleans have used the crisis as an occasion for social advancement:

Almost everyone I've talked to says we're going to move to Houston.

What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality.

And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this -- this is working very well for them.