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For example, 71% of blacks say the disaster shows that racial inequality remains a major problem in the country; a majority of whites (56%) feel this was not a particularly important lesson of the disaster. And while 66% of blacks think that the government's response to the crisis would have been faster if most of the storm's victims had been white, an even larger percentage of whites (77%) disagree.
^^^^ CB: Denial of the persistence of racism is the distinguishing characteristic of the New Racism developed in Reaganism.