What caused the area between downtown and LSU to become so ghetto?

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Was it always like this?

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yes

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bullshite. My dad grew up in the 60's in north baton rouge and it wasn't the way it is now for sure. And there very clearly were reasons it went the way it did.

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seem like you already got the answers you want then

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What caused the area between downtown and LSU to become so ghetto?

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Mostly the people, final answer.

Societal decline

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not even remotely the same area we are talking about

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Very closely related come tf on. So this area what everyone is saying, was always ghetto, and the ghetto spread north? That's what I'm trying to figure out.

Nicholson had some fairly nice homes along it decades ago. Highland has been ghetto as long as I can remember.

[quote]Mostly the people, final answer.[/quotI

I worked at the Bengal, among other places, back then, one night there was a random shot fired at the main entrance (from the nice neighborhood west of it, my roommate was ID checking/bouncing at the door, bullet hit less than a foot from his head, police substation right across the street, they were like, “ what do you want us to do?” my POS car was stolen one night, only good thing was it was such a POS that the upstanding yutes gave up on it, had to go retrieve it from the Southern University campus

Pretty much every small to big city downtown areas are becoming ghetto. Rep or Dem, people are tired of catering to homeless, uneducated, and fatherless raised people which all come with loads of crime and heartache.

‘Cool bars’ and sports arenas aren’t the answer. People are fed up and are willing to move as far away as they can for safety, education, and communities who have respect for others. See Houston rodeo. Nobody respectable who is actually raising a family wants to be around that trash, and by trash, we all know who we’re talking about.

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So Huey Long decided the middle of the fkn Ghetto is where LSU needed to be?

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Like said I don’t know anything about ghetto… homeownership probably some like 90%+ in that area… Huey Long has nothing to do with it … LSU been there since 1870 I think