re: What event or thing sent Baton Rouge back the most?

August 18, 1920

Black flight. Starting in mid 2000s all black folks that could move from traditonal black neighborhoods in BR started to do so. Contrary to popular belief, many working lower middle class families lived amd kept an economic base there at least robust. In the 90s, an Alton Sterling had a job somewhere on Choctaw or Isrouma area. 2016: he had to hustle dvds and cds in the middle of the night where no nuclear black families no longer live. These hoods are not safe to raise kids, the residents weigh down public services namely the school and health systems by taking out more than it contributes and the effect is slowly but surely effecting the greater quality of life and culture in BR.

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Katrina and its not even close.

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We moved from Baton Rouge well before Katrina due to the city. I dont know what world you living in but that is just a scape goat. It was just as bad before katrina minus a few gang fights. Plus a ton moved back

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School bussing?


If you send your kids to public school in BR, you hate your children.

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Yea they started shutting us around BR instead of our closest school when I was little so my parents moved us. I was the only white kid in my whole class room at Mayfair

Katrina accelerated the incoming decline

Bussing in Public Schools is a close 2nd

No loop. Would have prevented the full on cluster of I-10 being shutdown at the bridge today.

Actually that bitch Margaret Pereboom helped parker write it.

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school desegregation order

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School bussing

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As a lifelong resident of BR, white flight in the 80's seemed to have affected the downfall of this city more than Katrina.
Livingston and Ascension Parish saw a huge increase in residents starting in the late 1970's through the 1990's and beyond.
Almost everyone I grew up with in the Sherwood/Park Forest/Monticello area left and moved to the outlying parishes.
The lower middle class families moved to Denham Springs and Walker.
The more affluent families moved to Prairieville, Dutchtown, and St. Amant.

If I look at my FB friends list today, most of my childhood acquaintances are out of state, in Watson, or in Prairieville.

The people that moved into Baton Rouge after Katrina mostly settled in already poor areas.

ETA: I was sent to private school in 1981. It looks as if this was my parents main reason:

East Baton Rouge Parish School Desegregation Timeline
1980: U.S. Justice Department successfully files for a Summary Judgment in the case. Judge orders the NAACP and Justice Department to meet with the School Board to come up with a plan for desegregating schools. After rejecting the School Board Magnet School Plan, Judge Parker orders a desegregation plan involving clusters and pairs at the elementary level, single grade centers at the middle school level and revised high school districts. The School Board submits a new middle school plan that is accepted by the courts allowing students to attend one school for all three grades. School Board appeals ruling while implementing the plan.

1981: Elementary schools part of the plan is implemented. 1982: Secondary Schools part of the plan is implemented. 1983: U.S. Fifth Circuit reaffirms the lower court ruling. U.S. Justice Department submits its own desegregation plan to possibly end suit. School Board rejects plan.

Desegregation and it’s not even close.