re: What’s next for St George?

I agree with army. That sliver was included for a reason. I am not aware of what that reason is but I did notice it and mentioned it to several friends when St. George passed originally. I moved to Ascension Parish immediately after the first petition for St. George failed and MOP’s nephew was involved with the voters register office and all the shenanigans with that. I went to school with him and knew that slimy little cocksucker would do his aunts bidding. We will find out soon why it was included.

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St. George needs to focus on annexation more unincorporated areas. Amite river to Millerville

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This area was in the original map but was removed because they didn't support the idea in the original petition.

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How did Zachary and Central succeed and St George fail?

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I don’t think Zachary and Central faced the same motivated opposition with four dumber amendments on the ballot.

They just need a more favorable environment.

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Always wondered why BR Proper never did incorporate

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I'm wondering why they didn't incorporate all of SEBR. My guess is that since we were on a Mayor-President system it didn't matter. Or so they thought.

I feel like the quiet approach was always the plan. And there’s probably reasoning and proof that’s worked as a strategy before. They were probably doing what Central and Zachary did. Keep it quiet and run it up the flagpole. If it fails, which it did, you go to Stage 2.

Now my guess is they’ll do it again. This time it will be much louder.

In the interim while you prepare for a campaign, get more vicious with BR. SG holds a lot of the financial cards. Start using them.

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Creating a new district impacts funding for every district in the state That’s why you have to get a statewide vote

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That makes no sense

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I'm wondering why they didn't incorporate all of SEBR.

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The initial map was everything unincorporated in the SE portion of the parish.

Several campaigns were launched by the city, scared of losing whitey's money, and they convinced a few large swaths to annex prior to the vote.

Also, several small pockets of predominantly black neighborhoods and apartments threw a fit because they didn't want to be in St. George. After the initial vote failed, the organizers removed those black communities from the map by request. Once they did that they were asked why they didn't want predominantly black neighborhoods in their city.

When the demand for racism exceeds the supply, this is what you get.

After such a significant defeat, you have to wonder what caused it and why it failed. In this particular case, it was likely a combination of factors that motivated several different groups of voters to turn out.

For people who currently live in and would remain part of the East Baton Rouge Parish School System, there were concerns about the loss of funding and the damage it could create for their own schools. There may also have been a negative perception of the leadership running St. George. I don’t live there, so I can’t say for certain, but some voters may not have been convinced they demonstrated the level of governance needed to ease concerns.

Another factor was likely concern over future property tax increases in the St. George area, especially among residents who do not intend to send their children to the proposed public schools. There is also a perception, whether accurate or not, that the breakaway school effort was motivated in part by racial issues.

Beyond those concerns, Louisiana voters generally tend to vote “no” on amendments unless there is a strong and convincing campaign for a “yes” vote, and that didn’t seem to happen in this case.

One interesting result was Livingston Parish voting yes. Livingston is one of the few parishes that arguably had a reason to vote no. If much of the middle-class flight from East Baton Rouge is driven by dissatisfaction with the school system, why would Livingston want EBR to have another alternative? You would think Livingston would prefer more middle- and upper-middle-class families to continue relocating there instead. The same logic could potentially apply to places like Zachary and Central as well.

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St George went from idea to "city" and skipped the whole community step.

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Was it not Broome’s idea that it should be a city?

Still don’t understand why that was a statewide vote.