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re: Older Baton Rouge residents. What lead to the decline of NBR?
Posted on 6/24/17 at 10:30 pm to johnnyrocket
Posted on 6/24/17 at 10:30 pm to johnnyrocket
How did you miss the main movie theater, the Regina?
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Posted on 6/24/17 at 10:30 pm to Tigeralum2008
As other parts of Baton Rouge developed, people with some money moved away. They did not want to live near refineries. It wasn't a white flight. It a green flight. It was mostly whites because historically whites had more money for a variety of reasons, including more opportunities.
There was a great shift in the economy. Back in the day most of the economy was centered around North Baton Rouge. That was no longer the case.
Add in desegregation and section 8 housing for whites and blacks and you are well on your way to what we have today.
North Baton Rouge will never recover even with the few bones the government and city planners throw their way.
There was a great shift in the economy. Back in the day most of the economy was centered around North Baton Rouge. That was no longer the case.
Add in desegregation and section 8 housing for whites and blacks and you are well on your way to what we have today.
North Baton Rouge will never recover even with the few bones the government and city planners throw their way.
This post was edited on 6/24/17 at 10:36 pm
Posted on 6/24/17 at 10:41 pm to LSUTANGERINE
quote:It's always race, enmass with you. Never individual merit that makes a difference.
historically whites had more money for a variety of reasons, including more opportunities
I'm surprised you don't pine for a return of a time when black unemployment was zero, in the antebellum south.
Posted on 6/24/17 at 10:43 pm to Tigeralum2008
When the Italians started moving in.
Posted on 6/24/17 at 10:46 pm to Bullfrog
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It's always race, enmass with you. Never individual merit that makes a difference.
You are such an idiot. Are you really that naïve enough to believe that blacks had as many opportunities in the 1950's and 60's? Not to mention their parents from 1920s 30s and 40s. . This was pre-civil rights era.
This thread was about the decline of NBR in general.
This post was edited on 6/24/17 at 10:49 pm
Posted on 6/24/17 at 10:57 pm to Bullfrog
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It's always race, enmass with you. Never individual merit that makes a difference.
Have you read the first few pages of this thread? Have you seen the post with the most uovotes?
What a joke. You didn't say a single thing to anyone else about race and when Tangi make a solid post pointing out mostly the obvious economic factors in the decline, you go jump down his arse about a small tidbit on race.... sad
Posted on 6/24/17 at 10:58 pm to Tigeralum2008
The real question is, why must black neighborhoods always turn to shite?
Posted on 6/24/17 at 11:05 pm to biglego
quote:you mean low-income neighborhoods?
why must black neighborhoods always turn to shite?
Because if you do, I'm sure you know the answer.
Posted on 6/24/17 at 11:13 pm to biglego
quote:The real question is why do the people with the most time on their hands have the crappiest yards.
The real question is, why must black neighborhoods always turn to shite?
This post was edited on 6/24/17 at 11:13 pm
Posted on 6/24/17 at 11:15 pm to SuperSaint
No, I meant black neighborhoods.
Posted on 6/24/17 at 11:16 pm to SuperSaint
quote:Look brah, no need to get all factual. Did your DNA test comeback higher on sub-Saharan than you'd hoped?
Have you read the first few pages of this thread? Have you seen the post with the most uovotes?
Posted on 6/24/17 at 11:18 pm to SuperSaint
quote:Trashy people and pit bulls?
you mean low-income neighborhoods? Because if you do, I'm sure you know the answer.
Posted on 6/24/17 at 11:19 pm to biglego
quote:well low income neighborhoods are usually filled with broke people that don't keep up with their property and it goes to shite.... happens all over the place. It's trashy and sucks
No, I meant black neighborhoods.
Posted on 6/24/17 at 11:28 pm to Bullfrog
It's because they don't own the home they live in. Renters typically aren't responsible for upkeep. That's the landlord's job. Also, if the renter spent too much time and effort upgrading property they didn't own, the property might increase in value, causing the rent to go up. The federal government doesn't care if section 8 properties are kept up, section 8 tenets have few other options and don't care, and thus property owners don't care either.
The reason why people on section 8 and public assistance commit more property and violent crime is because of the strict income and asset limits for recieving benefits. If they exceed that, they lose their benefits and have what they were given confiscated. Entitlements give you enough to live, but not enough to be comfortable so they have to resort to illicit income (cash businesses, theft, selling drugs, etc) to have more spending money.
Section 8 and cradle to grave entitlements (medicaid, disibility, WIC, SNAP, etc) are the downfall of civilzation.
The reason why people on section 8 and public assistance commit more property and violent crime is because of the strict income and asset limits for recieving benefits. If they exceed that, they lose their benefits and have what they were given confiscated. Entitlements give you enough to live, but not enough to be comfortable so they have to resort to illicit income (cash businesses, theft, selling drugs, etc) to have more spending money.
Section 8 and cradle to grave entitlements (medicaid, disibility, WIC, SNAP, etc) are the downfall of civilzation.
Posted on 6/24/17 at 11:34 pm to kingbob
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Section 8 and cradle to grave entitlements (medicaid, disibility, WIC, SNAP, etc) are the downfall of civilzation.
Bingo.
Thomas Sowell - "Even when they have the potential to become productive members of society, the loss of welfare state benefits if they try to do so is an implicit “tax” on what they would earn that often exceeds the explicit tax on a millionaire. If increasing your income by $10,000 would cause you to lose $15,000 in government benefits, would you do it? In short, the political left’s welfare state makes poverty more comfortable, while penalizing attempts to rise out of poverty"
This post was edited on 6/24/17 at 11:35 pm
Posted on 6/24/17 at 11:34 pm to Tigeralum2008
One could ask a similar question about north Lafayette. The answer there is the real estate agents and developers.
Posted on 6/24/17 at 11:36 pm to SuperSaint
Racism is the main reason why NBR has declined bottom line. White people are generally in control of the economy and they have by and large chose no longer to invest in NBR (or most of BR) due to once again the lack of whites in the area. Even the private predominately white schools in NBR (Redemptorist, St. Isadore, etc) are closed down, white people have totally abandoned the area. It just makes me laugh honestly b/c many of these white flight people claim to want to go to heaven one day .... apparently they believe heaven is full of only white people and Jesus is white which couldn't be farther from the truth. All ethnicities will be there and Jesus had olive skin and wool hair (man of color) but most of them will never find out b/c their evil sick racists.
It really saddens me to see only the affluent areas close to LSU growing ... I feel like the whole city suffers when only a very small portion of the city sees any type of commendable economic development and growth.
It really saddens me to see only the affluent areas close to LSU growing ... I feel like the whole city suffers when only a very small portion of the city sees any type of commendable economic development and growth.
This post was edited on 6/24/17 at 11:42 pm
Posted on 6/24/17 at 11:40 pm to choupiquesushi
Judge Parker is the correct answer. You want to know of a case where one person destroyed a city, look up the history of Parker and desegregation in EBR parish.
Posted on 6/24/17 at 11:53 pm to truth87
Racism did play a role, primarily in the location of the interstates and red-lining, but your post is nothing but one big troll.
No one wants to live in a violent crime infested area where they're not welcome. Just look back to that case of that poor white couple who were nearly beaten to death at a gas station by the airport because they were in the wrong neighborhood after dark. Those who can escape a place like that will.
This is just rediculous. Olive skin is Mediterranean, i.e. Jew that works outside with a damn Jew Fro. Jesus was a Jew in Israel, not black. Queen of Sheba was definitely a sista and King Soloman had that Jungle Fever.
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white people have totally abandoned the area
No one wants to live in a violent crime infested area where they're not welcome. Just look back to that case of that poor white couple who were nearly beaten to death at a gas station by the airport because they were in the wrong neighborhood after dark. Those who can escape a place like that will.
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apparently they believe heaven is full of only white people and Jesus is white which couldn't be farther from the truth. All ethnicities will be there and Jesus had olive skin and wool hair (man of color) but most of them will never find out b/c their evil sick racists.
This is just rediculous. Olive skin is Mediterranean, i.e. Jew that works outside with a damn Jew Fro. Jesus was a Jew in Israel, not black. Queen of Sheba was definitely a sista and King Soloman had that Jungle Fever.
This post was edited on 6/24/17 at 11:56 pm
Posted on 6/25/17 at 12:03 am to Tigeralum2008
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A blackhole of economic decline.
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