re: Bloomberg: St. George is The New ‘White Fortress’ City of the South

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St. George would take almost 100,000 residents away from East Baton Rouge Parish

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a form of opportunity hoarding that we call “white fortressing.”

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made up phrases

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they also constrain access to opportunity among people of color

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When white communities fortress themselves, they siphon away resources from the larger region

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Actually, EBR government officials have been siphoning resources ($) from the previously unincorporated area to unequally distribute to their constituents. Essentially it has been a form of taxation without representation for years.

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violent resistance to integration and White flight from desegregating communities

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Give me a break it's 2024. Nobody is violently opposing integration. In, fact, it's the so called white flight trying to avoid the violence of inner cities.

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The impact of these practices is well known. They perpetuate inequities in crucial ways, by limiting the quality and types of services that already-underserved communities receive, which adversely affects the health and wealth-building potential of people in marginalized communities for generations. In addition, having more governments in a geographical area — for example municipalities or school districts — has been shown to negatively affect health outcomes for Black Americans, but not for whites.

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