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re: Older Baton Rouge residents. What lead to the decline of NBR?
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:11 am to Tigeralum2008
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:11 am to Tigeralum2008
When were those plants built? I'm betting that played a big role
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Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:15 am to GeorgeReymond
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When were those plants built? I'm betting that played a big role
They had smaller operations before then, but they really exploded during WWII. That coincides with Baton Rouge going from being literally a small town to a decent sized city. A lot of white working class folks moved into town from rural areas (a lot actually from Mississippi) to come work in the plants and settled close by in N. Baton Rouge. They found affordable housing and it was close to work, so that outweighed the idea that you literally lived in the shadow of those plants. Once they made a bit of money they figured out they could live elsewhere and started moving out of that immediate area.
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