re: How the St. George vote broke down by voting precinct

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And that's what I'm advocating.

A majority of voters in significant numbers of residential areas voted to NOT be incorporated.

I'm pleased you agree with me.....

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You're being purposefully dishonest. The formation of st. george wasn't tied to individual districts but to the incorporated area districts as a whole.

I found this from a blog online referring to Shreveport so take it for what its worth:

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To de-annex in Louisiana, a city passes an ordinance that contracts it boundaries. But this must be preceded by a petition containing the written consent of a majority of registered voters , the written consent of majority in number of the residential property owners and the written consent of 25% in value of the property of the resident property owners within the area proposed to be de-annexed. These three required petitions must be certified by the parish assessor and the parish registrar of voters.

Assuming these requirements are satisfied, then the Shreveport city council can by a majority vote approve the de-annexation of area from the city limits.

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Do you have precinct data? Because the map shows them as voting YES. Santa Maria is between I-10 and 61 and south of Highland. Precinct 03/067.

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You're right. I was look at the map all cock-eyed.

No 03/019 is CCLA

I'm not sure if CCLA is A or B but 03/019A was 61% YES and 03/019B was 62% YES.

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The formation of st. george wasn't tied to individual districts but to the incorporated area districts as a whole.

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And who decided what those "districts as a whole" would be?

This isn't the same as a long-existing legal area, like East Baton Rouge Parish, votes on a person or issue.

It's the creation of a NEW area where the proposed boundaries were drawn up by a handful of people. Those people had no way of knowing if the voters of those areas wanted to be incorporated or not until there was a vote.

Now they know.

Much of the area they proposed to be within the new city of St. George want to be in the city.

And I fully support they should get their wishes.

But there are significant contiguous (and that's important) areas which do not want to be incorporated after finally being able to express their wishes.

I fully support their wishes, too.....

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03/056 looks bigger than it is when it comes to voting power. That whole swath south of Highland road is swamp and woods with Bayou Fountain running through. There aren't many people there. The houses in that precinct are in those "newer" neighborhoods along Bluebonnet past Burbank.

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It is misleading

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Russian has to be trolling us.

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I'm trolling just because I'm applying the same logic that you've been preaching for years about St. George?

I think we know who the hypocrite is here....

This is what 03/056 looks like

I know the area well, the map is misleading.