re: Stay classy Baton Rudge

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Horse shite. Littering isn’t class specific.

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You've never been to a poor country before, have you? I went down to Tijuana for a charity house build a few years ago. The ravines were piled with smoldering trash. It's very much socioeconomic. Yes there are some trashy people of higher income, but there is a very big correlation of poverty and littering.

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I’ve seen people on six figure fishing boats in Grand Isle

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You don't have to be rich to own an expensive boat. There are many trashy arse people who live in trailers but have a big arse boat, and a big arse truck (truck nuts optional).

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If I could blame this all on poors, I would.

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You should. Look at where Ward's creek runs, especially to where it comes from, that leads up to the burden center. At least in today's society, where we are all a little more environmentally conscious, that type of awareness or care isn't there when you are poor.

Also, as the article says,

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“Our fathers and grandfathers have done this,” said Marie Constantin, a founding member of the Louisiana Stormwater Coalition. “When we’re picking up litter we pick up our fathers and grandfathers litter, and our litter. This is a decades and decades-old problem.”

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This is true. The thought process behind littering has changed drastically in the past 30 years. Just about everyone is mindful of litter, now. Back in the 80's and 90s, that was not a big concern.

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Might get cleaned up occasionally, but people litter all over again.

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True, but i'd be willing to bet it would take 2 or 3 times as long to accumulate as much trash, as shown in the article, now.

Not ALL poors, but it's mostly poors responsible for the litter.