re: Can someone explain Baton Rouge city jargon to me ?

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However I dont understand the East BR/ West BR Parish divide.

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well you see we have this huge river...

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Basically because plant jobs, and industries that support them usually pay well. The people that work in these fields make good incomes, don't want to live in the ghetto that areas around them have become, and move away from them to get away from the crime, and poor schools.

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Yep, I know several people that work in the plants located in NBR and all of them live outside the parish for all the obvious reasons.

NYC has 'SoHo.'

In BR, basically anything North of Government is 'NoGo.'
Pretty much 'Mid-City' means 'Crime is High Here' it just sounds better to say mid-city.

There are some nice areas in Mid-city BR.


I know when I was living back in BR after the storm ('06-07) Mid-city had already made some huge strides in the right direction from when I was previously in the area. (Going to LSU '02ish)....


Areas like Spanish Town, Ogden Park, Bernard Terrace, Hundred Oaks, Melrose Place, etc etc. are all desirable places to live.

There is a reasons those neighborhoods were built where they were initially and have been sought out generation after generation.

I'd much rather be living there than the likes of Baker, Watson, Central, Zachary, Walker (doubt there is many sidewalks for the walking population and bet more people spend way more time in bumper to bumper traffic than they do 'walking' in Walker)

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I know that North BR is where SUBR is located and is also the less desirable side of Baton Rouge. South BR is the home of LSU and is the economic powerhouse of the Baton Rouge (essentially corporate Baton Rouge).

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NBR is a lot more than just Southern and Scotlandville. NBR has Exxon, the Old Bridge, Plank Road, Cortana Mall, Bon Carre (Cox's regional headquarters), BR General Mid City, Arkel, most of the state government offices, and a whole host of other factories and industrial companies.

SBR isn't just the white area, it also has Old South Baton Rouge, one of the oldest historic black neighborhoods in the U.S.; Gardere; Valley Park; ect. While it's majority white overall, it's not like SBR has LSU and a host of construction companies like Turner, CB&I, Cajun, Group, Performance, ect. It also has most of the retail shopping centers plus OLOL, BR General South, Woman's Hospital, Blue Bayou, LSU, and Industraplex.

Basically, the South has more retail and construction companies. The North has more heavy industry and is where most of those SBR construction companies go to work at Exxon.

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East BR/ West BR Parish divide.

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Two different parishes divided by the Mississippi River.

EBR is where the city of Baton Rouge is.

WBR is where Port Allen is.

West Baton Rouge is a parish that is separated from east Baton Rouge parish by the Mississippi River.

West Baton Rouge/Iberville has Dow chemical, plenty of sugarcane but the sugar mill in brusly is no longer operational and a big oak tree. WBR also has towns like erwinville and port Allen.

North BR has a lot of industry but lower class income houses since the 70/80's I'm guessing.

That's just a quick summary

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North BR is were most of your industry/plants and economic powerhouses of the parish are, along with the inner city higher crime areas, and lower income. South BR is made up more of commercial business and higher income neighborhoods. You also have North EBR parish which is Baker, Zachary, Central and so on which are more rural suburbs of BR. East and West Baton Rouge are separated by the MISSISSIPPI RIVER and are very different. BR is the big city, and WBR is poorer, more agriculture, small town type of area.

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Partially correct. ExxonMobil Refinery,Chem Plant and Plastic plants are not inside city limits. Honeywell is. GN Gonzales Honda or whatever its called now is also not inside the city limits even though its surrounded by the city.

Therefore there is not much "power" in NBR. Not sure what you would label downtown.

Edit: Most people don't understand where the city limits start and end due to Baton Rouge's jacked up lines. Industriplex and Siegan Lane are out of the city. The consolidation of government stopped a lot of annexation due to 1 governmental board over the city as well as the parish.

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better question is why do people who live in these areas not assert themselves a little more to try and get one of those jobs, or a any job for that matter?

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Because they get free mailbox money and sit at home and drink/drug.

I could explain, but I'd rather not get banned

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Delmont Village, Go Go Club (was on plank North of Krispy Kreme by maybe 1000 ft or less), Robert E Lee theather, the YMCA off Hollywood all grew during the 70's.

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Plank Bowl. My friend and I used to wear out the pinball machines there while his folks bowled and drank beer.