HoustonChronicle.com - Don't ship evacuees far, Jesse Jackson says

HoustonChronicle.com - Don't ship evacuees far, Jesse Jackson says: "If evacuees are living thousands of miles away, he said, they can't be in on the jobs and economic opportunities that will arise as their communities are rebuilt. He proposed using military bases in Louisiana, such as the mothballed England Air Force Base in Alexandria. Evacuees could live in dorms and tent cities.

Jackson said evacuees from the Gulf Coast are not refugees, a word he believes suggests subhumans or criminals.

'It is racist to call American citizens refugees,'' he said. "