re: NAACP mad at St George and they have demands

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I just don’t see how St George is going to be a utopia when there are undesirable properties & residents already living there.

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Anyone here saying it is going to be a utopia is mostly doing so tongue -in-cheek. No one realistically thinks it's going to immediately become a "utopia". However, with the trajectory of the city of Baton Rouge pointed down why wouldn't people who live outside of the city limits (but still within the parish) want to try a different approach? If it doesn't work out as well as hoped, so what? The status quo isn't great.

Best case scenario, St. George becomes something akin to some of the suburbs in Jefferson Co. Alabama. (like Mountain Brook, Homewood, Vestavia Hills), etc. Birmingham is still in the county, but each of those smaller cities have their own school districts. The cities aren't completely tethered to Birmingham like the St. George area has been to the city of BR. Are those cites perfect? No. But the families living there are happy they have the option to send their kids to public school.

A good public school system is attractive to families. And with middle-class to upper-middle class families come businesses. With that comes more money...and (presumably) higher tax revenue...that can be spent INSIDE the city rather than siphoned off to an adjacent city. Talk to ANYONE who has tried to recruit out of state employees with families to Baton Rouge. It's not that easy when you have to acknowledge they either have to live outside of the parish or send their kids to private schools.