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Posted on 3/25/26 at 10:51 am to Ihatethiscity
OP has a 4chan /pol/ symbol in his user profile, and is trying to get us to make responses that will get us banned.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 10:53 am to SouthEndzoneTiger
Well I'm thinking if the flagship university of the state was in Pineville it would look a like different than even when you grew up there. I would think the state would spend the resources and money to build it up to a nice college town like we see in other southern states. The point of Buhlow, Red River, and throw in Kincaid and Indian Creek is there is a lot of outdoor recreation potential for college kids to take advantage of in the area compared to basically none in BR area. Imagine Kincaid lake having more restaurants and infrastructure right on the lake other than Tunk's.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:00 am to bdavids09
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Ah I didn’t know that. Well that explains it. But didn’t parts of north BR use to be white?
North Baton Rouge's growth and development was mostly tied to the refinery. It was Baton Rouge's old white working class area, with a lot of the people there being transplants from rural areas (often Mississippi - see Billy Cannon's family), who moved to town to work at "The Plant."
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:02 am to High C
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ETA: Jeff Landry should get rid of homestead exemption and then all the ghetto could be bought up at the sheriff sale
So, frick over a whole bunch of honest people by creating a larger tax burden just to grab a tiny area of property from some black people? Gotcha.
Homestead exemption is the problem. Close to half the houses in the parish pay nothing. You are subsidizing north baton rouge to stay a shithole.
But hay, you "feel" like you saved a bit so it will never go away.
Make everyone pay.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:03 am to Ihatethiscity
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This post was edited on 3/25/26 at 5:14 pm
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:05 am to LouisianaLonghorn
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Yep. They demolished some really nice older homes on Nicholson to make way for the development that never happened. It would’ve gone a long way toward cleaning up that strip. Surely, some developer will come along at some point and will make another attempt.
Something is in the works. They've been doing dirt work and clearing trees around the waste water area.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:07 am to Ihatethiscity
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So this area what everyone is saying, was always ghetto, and the ghetto spread north? That's what I'm trying to figure out.
I'm sure it was a very nice area before LBJ came along and ruined it.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:14 am to Violent Hip Swivel
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My general observation is that big cities have gone backward in the last 10 years (opioids, cost of housing) but mid-sized cities and smaller cities are still trending up.
It depends on where cities are on “the timeline.” The rust belt faded first (at least when discussing things in the era during which some of our posters have been alive). Some of those places are already rebounding, see Pittsburgh and Detroit. Granted, being on an upward swing usually means loft apartments, coffee shops, and yoga studios, but it’s not all abandoned like it was during the Super Bowl in 2006.
While cities like Cleveland, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and Detroit were in the shitter, Sun Belt cities and Southwestern cities were thriving. Now, you are seeing those places struggle a bit downtown, see Austin and Nashville. Eventually, some of the rot will get cleaned out, folks buy dilapidated buildings for pennies on the dollar, rebuild and renovate.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:18 am to LouisianaLonghorn
quote:my grandparents house was one of them. It really makes me sad that I can’t go by there and just look at it again, we spent every single Sunday of my childhood in that house having Sunday dinner with the entire family
They demolished some really nice older homes on Nicholson to make way for the development that never happened.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:21 am to Ihatethiscity
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What caused [XYZ] to become so ghetto?
I mean fill in the blank the answer is always the same right?
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:22 am to Shexter
quote:yep
Villa Oaks was the best grocery store ever
Park Forest Elementary class of 1975 checking in. We rode our bikes to school from edgemont drive
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:23 am to OysterPoBoy
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I'm sure it was a very nice area before LBJ came along and ruined it.
Actually the area between downtown and lsu was known as “black Wall Street” before the racist lsu fans came and destroyed it
LSU even wrote a song commemorating the riots called “neck”
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:35 am to tiger91
They were twins from Morganza.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:50 am to Ihatethiscity
The only way to fix it is to make that a toll-way. 
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:53 am to OysterPoBoy
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Make everyone pay.
When it comes to property tax, I’m in the “make no one pay” camp. I’m in favor of a flat sales tax as the method to make everyone pay.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 12:21 pm to CocomoLSU
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Your second post directly contradicts your OP. So why did you start the thread if you already know the answer?
It doesn’t contradict, we know there was white flight. An area that was prosperous and stable, a clear reason for the decline. Unlike this area, I was wondering why such a convenient area next to both downtown and LSU is such a slum.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 12:28 pm to Ihatethiscity
Those we don’t speak of moved in
Posted on 3/25/26 at 12:33 pm to Ihatethiscity
South Baton Rouge is one of the oldest historically black neighborhoods in the country. However, it wasn’t always nearly as bad. The neighborhood went from a mix of middle class and working class blacks to ghetto after the Central Sewer plant was expanded. The stink of the sewer plant caused the wealthy to immediately move out to wealthier new neighborhoods at the time like Melrose.
But yeah, large swaths of that neighborhood have been bad since the 1960’s at the latest.
But yeah, large swaths of that neighborhood have been bad since the 1960’s at the latest.
This post was edited on 3/25/26 at 12:34 pm
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