North Carolina knows that FEMA has and will come to its rescue when disaster hits. Now, New Jersey, New York and other states know it too. Certain governors’ are not buying into the old GOP bugaboo that FEMA must be tossed out like the baby with the bath water. 

Mother Jones compares the record of federal emergency management under Democrats and Republicans.  

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/10/fema-case-study-difference-between-democrats-and-republicans