I think you forget that the eye of Katrina hit Mississippi and when it hit

I didn't forget that, I said that Mississippi didn't have anything comparable to NO, not that it didn't get hit.

It was only after the levee broke and flooding began that New Orleans became the center of the story.

One of many things about NO that proves my point. Biloxi, the closest comparison that can be made to NO, is almost a 30ft elevation advantage.

Many Mississippi towns were utterly demolished by Katrina. Other than New Orleans Louisianna wasnt nearly as damaged or devastated.

Just because the story and focus in the news media was New Orleans, don't forget that damage wise the entire state of Mississippi was ravaged by the hurricane. there were just over 300 deaths in the state of Mississippi.

Let me counter with how admirably Barbour handled the Katrina disaster while his neighboring state floundered.

Louisiana did mostly alright after Katrina, it was New Orleans that was a disaster. Mississippi didn't have anything comparable along the storm's path.

Which of course had nothing to do with Barbour's being a Republican, while his Louisiana colleague was a Democrat, under an administration that treated EVERYTHING as a partisan issue.