One of the untold stories of Ferguson is that, up until now, the Ferguson community took pride in being a racially mixed community.
Ferguson is about 2/3 black and about 1/3 white. And they took pride in being a diverse community.
After all of this, what will become of Ferguson? I can imagine that many of the 1/3 white minority have been making plans to move. And that no new white residents will move in. Or any decent black people for that matter.
In a few years, Ferguson will be 99% black, and they will be mostly ghetto black at that. The business community will be long gone. It will be a wasteland.
I’m hope to be wrong about such predictions. But, time will tell. Let’s see in five years what Ferguson looks like then. See how many businesses are still around and what the population patterns look like.
I think your predictions are spot on, with one exception.
I don’t think it will take five years. Three years at most.
After that, nail salons, liquor stores, and small markets that don’t sell fresh fruit and vegetables.