The business district of Watts, Calif., along 103rd Street, never recovered after the riot whose fiftieth anniversary we will be commemorating in a few months.
Nah, that's because its Jersey
I’ve heard some areas of Detroit never recovered after the 1967 riots there.
And I know of some parts of the Washington DC riot zone, which took decades to become redeveloped after the ‘68 riots following the killing of Martin Luther King.
This is not shocking news about Ferguson.
It will be interesting to see what else happens in the future there. Up until now, Ferguson was about 2/3 black and about 1/3 white. Some white liberals actually had thought Ferguson was a model of a diverse community, before all of the troubles.
I would imagine that most if not all of the 1/3 white residents are planning to leave. And the good decent black residents, are also moving out. In less than 5 years, Ferguson will be 99% black, and they will be ghetto black, as opposed to any decent working, law abiding residents.