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re: Older Baton Rouge residents. What lead to the decline of NBR?

Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:26 am to
Posted by TROLA
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Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:26 am to
It started as simply not wanting to live next to big arse chemo plants and then followed by white flight once the home values started their decline.. Is my best guess
Posted by Y.A. Tittle
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Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:29 am to
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It started as simply not wanting to live next to big arse chemo plants and then followed by white flight once the home values started their decline.. Is my best guess


Yep. If you talk to really older people from BR, NBR was always seen as the sort of 'other side of the tracks' part of town. No doubt it was certainly nicer and more vibrant when you had a stable working class population living there, but it was never really seen as a desirable part of the city.
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