re: Why is Shreveport dying?

Why is Shreveport dying?

Because demographics is destiny. And Bossier is right there as an easy move to escape it. When your tax base moves away, you're left with a population requiring services and no way to pay for it. Elect corrupt officials to run it and let them establish their own political dynasties and it's over. Nothing will ever change for the better.

Sounds like what is happening to all cities in the USA except like 15 exceptions.

Pretty much either you are a big city that can draw in new businesses or industries or you are a smaller city that has some already that has been there forever or you have to compete with everybody else to get something new.

If someone needing a location for anything requiring a few thousand people were to look at Shreveport would they want to hire those people locally or would they feel good about attracting them to Shreveport from somewhere else? Remember, Shreveport is competing with everywhere else.

Mostly the biggest cities and smaller ones in areas where they don't have competition for a few hundred miles are drawing in anything new that would be considered attractive. Maybe Shreveport ought to go for chemical plants and put them on the downwind side of town.

Explain to me this “Magnet Cabal”?

My daughter goes to SH. We are far from wealthy or old money.

She scored in the 99 percentile and got in. No mystery or anything fishy about it.

Because Alabama hired Nick Saban so Shreveport doesn’t get a big turn out for the Independence Bowl any more.

I guess you haven’t paid attention to all the wealthy people’s children that are around yours. The few who don’t score high on the test are sent to private schools.What did they do with the kids that don’t score high? Give them a shitty education? (Which is what they do) Are they not entitled to a better education? That’s what I mean by cabal. And yes, SH is a very good school.

It’s pretty simple answer.

Shreveport had an oil boom in the early 1900s. Many families in the area became very wealthy. Those families are still around today.

In 1954, a plane crash killed most of Shreveport’s top leadership and was left with a void. The oil boom was also dying off.

The leadership that followed was unable to attract other industry to the area.

Dallas growing into what it is, the volatility of O&G, the white flight to Bossier, etc have all played their respective roles in creating the Shreveport we have today.

Social Darwinism?

The demo is becoming older and poorer with young people having less opportunity to build careers and families in Shreveport?

That is certainly a problem.

I’ve been here 13 years now. Every single friend I’ve made here, has eventually moved away to another city (Dallas, Houston, OKC, etc.)

We have only stayed due to proximity to family.