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re: Older Baton Rouge residents. What lead to the decline of NBR?
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:29 am to TROLA
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:29 am to TROLA
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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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Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:49 am to Y.A. Tittle
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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.
It was a desirable area for the working class but yes that is exactly what is was. It wasn't old money Baton Rouge and it wasn't an area that many professionals lived although I know a few when I was a kid ..doctors, engineers etc...but mostly just hard working people. I went to public school here in the 60's and 70's and I can count now probably 50 kids I knew that fathers worked at Exxon alone. Not to mention all the other plants that came along. All of them made a damn good living, had job security and a great pension.
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