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What event or thing sent Baton Rouge back the most?
Posted on 7/31/26 at 2:11 pm
Posted on 7/31/26 at 2:11 pm
Baton Rouge doesn't have the most prosperous history but what event can we look back on that made Baton Rouge really go down the shitter?
Election of Sharon Weston Broome?
All the evacuees moving to Baton Rouge after Hurricane Katrina?
Shaw getting bought out by CB&I?
Election of Sharon Weston Broome?
All the evacuees moving to Baton Rouge after Hurricane Katrina?
Shaw getting bought out by CB&I?
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Posted on 7/31/26 at 2:12 pm to FlyingTigerBo
Katrina and its not even close.
Posted on 7/31/26 at 2:12 pm to slidingstop
quote:
Katrina
and we sort of had this thread a few days ago
Posted on 7/31/26 at 2:13 pm to FlyingTigerBo
1865
Posted on 7/31/26 at 2:13 pm to FlyingTigerBo
katrina, affordable housing, section 8 popping up everywhere...
Posted on 7/31/26 at 2:13 pm to FlyingTigerBo
Judge john Parker
Posted on 7/31/26 at 2:13 pm to FlyingTigerBo
quote:
Shaw getting bought out by CB&I?
I doubt anyone not working for Shaw or named Bernhard gave a shite about this.
Posted on 7/31/26 at 2:13 pm to FlyingTigerBo
Hiring Lane Kiffin
Posted on 7/31/26 at 2:18 pm to FlyingTigerBo
1 billion percent Katrina
Posted on 7/31/26 at 2:18 pm to FlyingTigerBo
School bussing?
If you send your kids to public school in BR, you hate your children.
If you send your kids to public school in BR, you hate your children.
Posted on 7/31/26 at 2:21 pm to el Gaucho
quote:
Judge john Parker
100%. If the deseg ruling didn’t begin the free fall, it greatly accelerated it.
Posted on 7/31/26 at 2:22 pm to FlyingTigerBo
Brian Kelly
Posted on 7/31/26 at 2:22 pm to el Gaucho
Actually it was the Feds, and our school board.”
Instead of putting a plan together the school board did virtually nothing to comply with the federal laws. Instead they left it to Parker.
Instead of putting a plan together the school board did virtually nothing to comply with the federal laws. Instead they left it to Parker.
Posted on 7/31/26 at 2:22 pm to FlyingTigerBo
Katrina, followed by the school desegregation order.
Posted on 7/31/26 at 2:24 pm to FlyingTigerBo
I'd say what set the city back the most is white flight
Posted on 7/31/26 at 2:26 pm to crewdepoo
quote:
I'd say what set the city back the most is white flight
This the effect, not the cause the OP is seeking.
Posted on 7/31/26 at 2:26 pm to FlyingTigerBo
Desegregation. Ruined neighborhood schools, started the Exodus
Posted on 7/31/26 at 2:30 pm to FlyingTigerBo
Katrina and then the flood.
Posted on 7/31/26 at 2:31 pm to FlyingTigerBo
Katrina, same thing that ruined Laplace. Not that it was great, but it was safe and plenty of nice neighborhoods.
Posted on 7/31/26 at 2:31 pm to FlyingTigerBo
Desegregation and the white flight that followed.
Everything people blame on Katrina was well in play before. The population of Baton Rouge itself grew less than 10% due to Katrina.
Everything people blame on Katrina was well in play before. The population of Baton Rouge itself grew less than 10% due to Katrina.
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