What it Means to be a refugee?

Dictionary.com defines the term refugee as aomeone who flees for safety to a foreign country. For instance, the holocaust survivors were refugees if they escaped the war and cam to America. Citizens of New Orleans were NOT refugees. The media, in my opinion, is stupid for broadcasting news shows that refer to the citizens of New Orleans as refugees. That is a very degrading statement. It is indirectly saying that the residents of New Orleans who fled from the Hurricane were so poor that they werent even American. I agree with everyone of the citizens who were mad because of the fact that they were referred to as refugees. I completely think George Bush is also an idiot because he also referred to all those people as refugees. The citizens of New Orleans had every right to be angry with the comparison of them to refugees.