The most vile lie regarding President Bush's handling of Hurricane Katrina (and there's been a lot of them) has possibly fallen apart. I say possibly becuase I don't totally trust the new source and I could only find documents that would lead to this assumption but could not find the exact figures they used.

Statistics Suggest Race Not a Factor in Katrina Deaths

Statistics released by the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals suggest that fewer than half of the victims of Hurricane Katrina were black, and that whites died at the highest rate of all races in New Orleans....According to the 2000 census, whites make up 28 percent of the city's population...but constitute 36.6 percent of the storm's fatalities in the city.