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Those wealthy white flighters are almost certainly Democrats who voted to make Baton Rouge what they're fleeing.
That said, I love how liberals are all, "Get back here so we can rob you and beat up your children! Racists!"
That said, I love how liberals are all, "Get back here so we can rob you and beat up your children! Racists!"
LightRoasted
If I may ...
For your consideration ...
While they have every right to want a homogeneous society, and I don't blame them, this path they are going on is fraught with peril. Have they ever heard of the Law of Unintended Consequences. And the axiom, what you wish for, as you might get it. Give it about 10 years, and it will revert to the mean. Because one cannot discriminate when selling a house. Nor can they control elections and who runs for whatever office. Well, unless they are all democrats.
Besides, if they are so wealthy, why not send their kids to private schools, or home school?
While they have every right to want a homogeneous society, and I don't blame them, this path they are going on is fraught with peril. Have they ever heard of the Law of Unintended Consequences. And the axiom, what you wish for, as you might get it. Give it about 10 years, and it will revert to the mean. Because one cannot discriminate when selling a house. Nor can they control elections and who runs for whatever office. Well, unless they are all democrats.
Besides, if they are so wealthy, why not send their kids to private schools, or home school?
PeoplesElbow
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Well, my home town is now surrounded by the town next to it. The reason being that they annexed the land because some federal facility was being built there and they wanted the tax money. My home town is smaller 8k people vs the neighboring town, which is the county seat etc 25k people, but my town has their books straight and has been doing well as long as I can remember. The neighboring town has been on a downward slide since the 70s as main street died and all the businesses moved to the mall built in my town, the county's largest employer (glass factory) shut down etc, my towns median income is almost 3x that of the neighboring town. The federal government wanted to be part of that town though, because they had a paid fire department. This town then later annexed another side, which really should have gone to a third town that really could have used the tax revenue of a new shopping center with Walmart, Hobby Lobby, Staples, Kroger, and a good dozen restaurants and a couple nice hotels. So my town is now surrounded on three sides by the other town, even though there is about 5 miles of empty interstate between them.
So long story short, I don't see that as cut and dry.
Kinnakeet
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sounds like white power
Kinnakeet
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They dont want any wheaty beat kids
Kinnakeet
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They dont want whitey to go because he funds their EBT card
Clem72
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Is it "flight" when they aren't going anywhere? If I declare my house to be a new city named "Clemsylvania" that doesn't mean I fled anywhere...
glhs837
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And that’s not all. Finally, earlier this week the New York Times ran a hand-wringing story headlined, “Louisiana Will Get a New City After a Yearslong Court Battle.” Of course, it’s racist. The sub-headline decried, “The State Supreme Court cleared the way for a part of Baton Rouge to become the city of St. George. Critics say the white, wealthier enclave separating from the capital could have devastating consequences.”
First, some Baton Rouge citizens just asked for their own school district, citing concerns about out-of-control crime and failing public schools. When state officials refused to let them form their own school district, refused to fix the crime problem, and refused to improve the schools, in 2015 a group of citizens in a “sprawling unincorporated suburb of Baton Rouge” decided the only way forward was to secede from Louisiana’s capital city by forming their own city, called St. George. Four years later, in 2019, they finally got the issue on the ballot, and voters overwhemingly approved the measure.
We’re out.
But they weren’t out, not by a long shot. Then came the lawsuits and all the accusations they were literally a million times worse than the Ku Klux Klan. It couldn’t be that the City of Baton Rouge has become a nepotistic train wreck of a total progressive nightmare. According to opponents, the voters’ motives could only be one thing: invidious racism designed to hurt the black people in Baton Rouge by leaving and taking their $48 million in annual tax dollars with them.
Ironically, lower courts cancelled the new city effort, citing lack of financial viability. But four long legal years later, after litigating all the way to Louisiana’s Supreme Court, the new residents of St. George finally won their independence. Last Friday, the state’s highest court approved formation of the City of St. George in a 4-3 decision, forming a new city of nearly 100,000 people in an area of something under 60 square miles. St. George now becomes one of the Louisiana’s largest cities, and is the first city to be incorporated there in nearly twenty years.
Despite arguing for years that the new city would be too poor to support itself, critics have now turned on a dime, and are now calling the St. George residents rich white people, as reflected in yesterday’s MSNBC headline, penned by reporter Ja’han Jones (if that is his real name):
I guess they can afford to run their own city, after all.
In a recent Fox interview, the former local NAACP president agreed with the racism narrative, describing St. George’s secession as just a plot to hurt “people who look like me.” Absent from all this agonizing about the loss of fleeing former Baton Rouge citizens’ taxpayer revenue is any discussion over what started it all in the first place: the city’s failing public schools.
CLIP: former NAACP president Eugene Collins says rich white people want to hurt black Baton Rouge residents (1:53).
I think this is consequential. This seems like the way, a real solution to a seemingly intractable problem. How can we fix the failing big blue cities? We need to break them up. Make them into lots of smaller cities. Wouldn’t that be more democracy? And isn’t more democracy a good thing? After all, isn’t protecting democracy the current thing, now that Ukraine has slipped off the radar into the battle trench?
Apparently it depends on who you ask. If you ask me, I say we need more seceding cities. More competition. More democracy! More progress in the conservative counter-revolution.
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