re: The demise of Baton Rouge

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Houseboats are the answer.

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I see what you did there…., :)

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Class of 2029 stats:
458 Class Valedictorians
25% of students in the Top 10% of their class
13% increase in students enrolled in Ogden Honors College
3.85 - Average GPA of first-time freshmen

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No one said LSU didn't have bright students in its population, we're saying there are a lot of people at LSU that don't belong.

Look at the trending demographics of BR. They are terrible.

Until there is a drastic and I mean DRASTIC change in those numbers, the decline of BR will continue unabated. It will actually hit a tipping point eventually and the decline will accelerate.

Sadly the only way to flush out a ton of the demographic is via natural or man-made disaster

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Look at the trending demographics of BR. They are terrible.

Until there is a drastic and I mean DRASTIC change in those numbers, the decline of BR will continue unabated. It will actually hit a tipping point eventually and the decline will accelerate.

Sadly the only way to flush out a ton of the demographic is via natural or man-made disaster

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I know they are horrible and trending in the wrong direction at the expense of BR. But a growing Hispanic population isn't necessarily bad honestly, it just will not push the needle strong enough in the right direction. Hispanics for the most part are decent hard-working people ... they undesirables are a VERY small susbset of their population unlike in the African American community.

You forget about gentrification but nobody wants to gentrify BR. That's what is saving Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, and other blue cities in red states. New Orleans was being gentrified but Louisiana is still highly liberal for a red state and the economy sucks there so it won't be as effective as it could be.

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No one said LSU didn't have bright students in its population, we're saying there are a lot of people at LSU that don't belong.

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Yep

One look at all these orientation events and you see a ton of people that shouldnt be in college at all much less the “flagship” university of the state

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What I can comment on is that black two parent families statistically have equal outcomes to white two parent families and that the black upper class people in my neighborhood who are culturally no different than the white people at any of our clubs are great neighbors and friends.

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This is incorrect. I'm Black and grew up more middle class .. Black middle class families operate much differently than White middle class families. For one, most Black children from Black middle class families end up in a lower class as adults. That's not the same for White kids. There's a reason, it goes to that Black American value system. Also the majority of schools in Black middle class neighborhoods are below mediocre or at best mediocre. In White middle class neighborhoods they're mostly above average and at worst mediocre. And also Black middle class women are more likely to be single mothers than anybody else in the middle class. IT'S NOT THE SAME AT ALL, NOT EVEN CLOSE! NON-BLACK MIDDLE CLASS HOMES ARE MUCH BETTER

There's a lot of misinformation about the Black middle-class perpetuated by the lying liberal media. I'm giving you the honest truth. We're not the same like you think


See links below for more truth about the Black middle class. It's far worse than everybody else in the same socio-economic group
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You forget about gentrification but nobody wants to gentrify BR. That's what is saving Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, and other blue cities in red states.

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People who compare what's going on in BR to other cities nowhere comparable to it does not help fix the problem or understand the true state of affairs.

BR is becoming more like Jackson MS than it is Charlotte or Nashville