<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/df3bd874-4da7-4f72-9041-8e8ca256cecd/158AF932-AFE7-4993-8BEA-D26F820637AF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/us/nationalspecial/20orleans.html?em&ex=1195794000&en=ed31c09ec2ed5c15&ei=5087%0A" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/us/nationalspecial/20orleans.html?em&ex=1195794000&en=ed31c09ec2ed5c15&ei=5087%0A" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/us/nationalspecial/20orleans.html?em&ex=1195794000&en=ed31c09ec2ed5c15&ei=5087%0A"><H1> <NYT_HEADLINE _moz-userdefined="" type=" " version="1.0"> Whites Take a Majority on New Orleans’s Council </NYT_HEADLINE> </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/us/nationalspecial/20orleans.html?em&ex=1195794000&en=ed31c09ec2ed5c15&ei=5087%0A"><P>NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 19 — In one of the clearest signs yet of <A title="More articles about Hurricane Katrina." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/h/hurricane_katrina/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" linkindex="34" set="yes">Hurricane Katrina</A>’s lasting demographic impact, the City Council is about to have a white majority for the first time in over two decades, pointing up again the storm’s displacement of thousands of residents, mostly black. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/us/nationalspecial/20orleans.html?em&ex=1195794000&en=ed31c09ec2ed5c15&ei=5087%0A"><P>In local elections on Saturday, a veteran white politician, Jacquelyn B. Clarkson, defeated an African-American candidate, Cynthia Willard-Lewis, by 53 percent to 47 percent, in a contest for an at-large Council seat decided largely along racial lines. In addition, substantially more whites than blacks appear to have voted. Ms. Clarkson will become the fourth white member on the seven-member Council. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/us/nationalspecial/20orleans.html?em&ex=1195794000&en=ed31c09ec2ed5c15&ei=5087%0A"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/A58D2B50-7272-4FFB-85CB-BC2292790E2B" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/us/nationalspecial/20orleans.html?em&ex=1195794000&en=ed31c09ec2ed5c15&ei=5087%0A"><P class="caption"> Jacquelyn B. Clarkson’s election pointed out how Hurricane Katrina displaced blacks. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/158AF932-AFE7-4993-8BEA-D26F820637AF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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