re: The ramblings of a St. George opponent

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Ok so this will end badly because my dad who has lived in the Shenandoah area since the early 80's traditionally calls BR his home and people from Central and Zachary traditionally called Central and Zachary home? Do you realize that your argument has nothing to do with the outcome of this "breakaway"? Who cares what the people who live within the SG boundaries called their home city in the 70's?

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My folks were among the first 100 members of the Shenandoah club, and purchased a lot on the golf course in 72/73. We never built or lived there, but I know a slew of both family and friends who grew up there, and I spent many a weekends there with family and friends. I know exactly what I'm talking about when I say this IS and always has been considered Baton Rouge by the people living there. It's never been considered an outlying area like Zachary or Central has been, which are much older and established than Shenandoah or St. George in general is.

The reason it won't work is because it's joined at the hip, and people that work in one area live in another, and so on. An imaginary line of demarcation or city limits sign is a non issue when it comes to the problems affecting one bleed over and affect the other just the same. If St. George passes, there will be nothing at all in place to keep it isolated from Baton Rouge. Matter of fact, quite the opposite. It will prove to be a magnet for the problem to relocate there and set up shop. All the while, it will decrease the already lower population density of Baton Rouge, causing it to become more ghetto, and cause yet more and more and more people to evacuate at an ever increasing rate. The worse it gets, the more people will move until it's completely ghetto and property values are shite. It won't matter if St. George is successful or not in it's school district. It's just the perception that will drive this, and now your St. George is where it was trying to run from. It's now become the problem it sought to escape from, and nothing you can do will stop that.


This is not the answer, but a knee jerk reaction that is ill conceived and not thought out very well. You can tell that by how fast this came on the scene. Somebody had something pop in their head, and now it's a movement. It's the same silly nonsense, brought to you by the people who said "build a mall, then we'll think about building a road to get to the mall."