Ignorance Isn't Always Bliss

I don't know about everyone else, but once people find out I'm from New Orleans, a string of questions usually follow:

1.Did you evacuate before?
2.Did your house flood?
3.Have you been back since?
4.Are you and your family split up?
5.Do you know anyone that died?

and etc.

Now, I believe it's important to know about current events whether it be local, state, national or worldly. No matter how exaggerated the media can get, atleast they're giving you information on things you OUGHT to know. So when a lady asked me if I "Evacuated before", I said yes. Do you know what the next thing she said was? "Ohhhh, you were one of the smart ones!" Now I just finished my research paper on Hurricane Katrina (and if you know my mom, she sent it to everyone in her address book, and it still receiving feedback on my paper...I guess it was pretty informative because I've also received a few lengthy emails). Most of the information is up to date and accurate, and some of the information I actually got was from people who had to endure riding out the storm and then having to sit on their roof for three days without food or water.
Now I had a choice, I could continue to let this woman think that those who did not evacuate were dumb and probably deserved their fate because of their own stupidity (said with complete sarcasm), or I could correct her and make her look like a fucking stupid republican (because obviously she was in the long run). I'm at work, so I have to keep my inner-negro in check.
"Some people didn't have a way out. In fact, 27% of the population in New Orleans do not own their own vehicle, which is an estimated 120,000 people when you do the math. And not only that , 38% of the population has one of the highest poverty rates in America. So you can take in account two reasons why people couldn't evacuate: because they didn't have the means to do so, and if they did, where would they go exactly if they didn't have the money?" Now if there was a look for stupid, it was written all over her face. "Well...I...I, what I meant was..."of course she couldn't get out what she meant because I had just walked away to seat a customer, so I guess I'll never know what she "meant" by one of the "smart ones".