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

My Parents moved from beech street to Central in 1978. Had nothing to do with race, had everything to do with affordable new housing being developed outside the city limits. They still sent us to St. Gerard, and later Redemptorist.

In the late 80's and early 90's white flight went berserk. By the time I finished at Redemptorist hardly any of the neighborhood housed folks that I went to school with. Being a NBR boy it makes me sad to think that the area has declined so much.