If nothing else, the resettlement is already a story in state-to-state generosity. As of Sunday, there were an estimated 374,000 hurricane Katrina refugees in shelters, hotels, homes and other housing in 34 states and the District of Columbia, according to the Red Cross and state relief officials.
The total number of refugees may surpass 1 million, but a large percentage have been absorbed into their own relative's homes, say experts.
In many cases evacuees have ended up in places far from their native Gulf coast. A surprisingly large percentage of them say they like what they see.
Ah, see that line about a "large percentage...in their own relative's homes? .... hundreds of thousands of Americans have opened their homes to friends and family... It's the big story of simple generosity of people caring for each other...
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