Audio: Post-Katrina population shift offers clues to the impending migration from Louisiana's coast

Lester Nicosia and his wife, Carole, just re-opened his family restaurant, Mutt’s, on the North Shore. People in St. Tammany Parish weren’t always friendly to transplants from St. Bernard Parish after Hurricane Katrina, but the Nicosias feel at home there now.

As Louisiana’s coast continues to disappear, people are moving inland. The state says thousands may be forced to leave their homes. But where will they go, and how will those places change?

For clues, we can look to St. Tammany Parish, where thousands moved after Hurricane Katrina.

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