ROFL. I wish I had mod points...

mod parent up please. It is amazing how few people understand this concept. It makes perfect sense when you see it this way, it it just never explained. At least, nobody ever explained it to me growing up in the States...

I'd say this sounds about right for me and several of my friends. Price is a detriment, and frankly the convenience of having them all on a media server hooked up to the TV with a decent frontend to navigate it all is worth something too. DVDs on my bookshelf collecting dust, cases of CDs in a storage shed, and an HTPC on the entertainment center being used daily.

You have clearly not been to New Orleans, have you? There is a huge majority of black people, whites are the minority. If you set a camera in front of a Walmart at any time it will likely still look like all black people were shopping/looting/malingering/loitering/shopping/shopping/smoking/walking-past there. It's just the way the racial distribution works there. Adding to that the fact that seemingly a majority of the white folk live in the better neighborhoods like the Garden District [where I lived, which had no water damage, BTW...] and the fact that property is and has been CHEAPER IN THE LOWEST PARTS OF TOWN... go figure... guess who lived in the most affected areas? Hey.. the lower income families! The water didn't care what color your skin was.