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Former First Lady Barbara Bush, who toured the Astrodome and met hurricane evacuees Monday in Houston, may have tried to put too cheerful a spin on what has occurred in the last week.

“Almost everyone I have talked to says, `We’re going to move to Houston,'” she said in remarks to National Public Radio’s “Marketplace.”

“What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas,” she said (this sentence as published has been corrected in this text). “Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them.”