re: How nasty is it going to get if the St. George vote happens?

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No No. They are throwing Magnet behind other school names now. So others are great. Woodlawn Magnet High

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Don't forget Scotlandville Magnet High

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I would be royally pissed if my kid couldn't go to Baton Rouge Magnet

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You do understand that under the current situation thousands of HS kids can't go to BRHS?

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Doesn't care because the world revolves around him.

SBR is the area south of Florida and west of a line from the old airport to Essen, something like that. It extended south to Highland Road.

The bottoms, college town, southdowns, capital heights, the garden district, old Goodwood, etc. is traditional SBR.

SG is south and east of SBR.

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just pointing out that the reality of this is that SBR is in every way deciding to separate from the rest of BR

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That just isn't true.

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Judge John Parker desegregation order.

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We prob wouldn’t have the possible st George, Central breakaway and Zachary breakaway if it wasn’t for him....

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False. In no way is anyone separating from Baton Rouge. This is an unincorporated area that’s attempting to make their own city.

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my post went over your head
I’ll try again

yes STG is unincorporated but in every way that means anything it’s Baton Rouge a s has always been batton rouge. There is no longstanding community or identity called “st george” like there was in central. so, the area being now called st George is attempting to separate from Baton Rouge, which it has always been a part of whether inside the city limits or not

Again, I support the effort.
Just trying to answer the OP’s question about how this will be played in the media, which I’m sure you already know and agree with

Time will solve my question. Enjoy the ride.

Cgrand, you represent the fool class of the public that’s going to be spoon fed what to believe.

You’re incorrect in your belief that the area unincorporated always was Baton Rouge is based an address your most valid point. However, I was a resident of unincorporated part of land in East Baton Rouge. We typically went by neighborhood names or high schools. Shenandoah, Broadmoar, Woodlawn, Westminster, and the list goes on. There’s a reason those areas weren’t previously incorporated. They didn’t want to be to avoid the stupid taxes of the city. The formation of St. George, albeit named after a fictious saint and the biggest catholic school in the heart of proposed city, is the culmination of the areas protecting themselves from excessive taxation with little appreciation.

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yes STG is unincorporated but in every way that means anything it’s Baton Rouge a s has always been batton rouge. There is no longstanding community or identity called “st george” like there was in central. so, the area being now called st George is attempting to separate from Baton Rouge, which it has always been a part of whether inside the city limits or n

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Hopefully this movement will help to educate people, and they will learn why it's important to how things work in the parish.

BR gets the benefits from BRPD, they benefit from the BRFD and its class 1 insurance rating and city street lighting. There are city taxes that unincorporated folks don't pay.

There are also taxes for SGFD that SG pays for fire service that BR doesn't pay.

Then there are taxes that are comingled and no one really knows how much BR uses to pay their bills and how much services SG gets for those taxes.

As hard as BR is fighting to stop SG, you gotta believe BR is coming out way ahead.

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Parkview would be non existent

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Parkview was created because of Parker's ruling