Original sentence: The capital of Louisiana is Baton Rouge, and the most populous city is New Orleans based on recent population data which found 32,000 people moved to New Orleans during the last seven months to bring the population to 255,000 people which is more than half pre-Katrina residents within the city proper area over the 229,000 in the Baton Rouge proper area
Edited sentence: The capital of Louisiana is Baton Rouge, and the most populous city is New Orleans based on recent population data which suggest New Orleans population shot up 14 percent since the Census put 223,000 there in July 2006 (which is a steady increase nearly 5,000 every month since then) which is more than half pre-Katrina residents within the city proper area over the 229,000 in the Baton Rouge proper area