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That they do. 40 yrs ago, Ferguson was a pretty prosperous majority-white suburb. It is now 70% or so minority, as North St. Louis has become mostly untenable and people have left in droves for the suburbs.

40 yrs hence, I should not be at all surprised if the same fate would befall the Maryland Heights of today. Well before that, though, we shall see a similar incident to the current Ferguson one occurring in (likely) Mehlville, Maplewood, Brentwood, possibly Webster, certainly unincorporated North County.

The only imponderable is when the race war actually breaks out, and St. Louis County is lucky, there. It's too fragmented, and too many municipalities are totally black-controlled; these munis (or, rather, the black pols who control them) will serve to prevent, for a time, the breakout of open warfare, because they don't want to lose their rice bowl/power base. Other cities will explode considerably faster than STL or STL County.

Have you noticed the almost total **lack** of hard fact coming out of this mess? Call me cynical, but this means to me that TPTB will, yet again, end up threatening the general citizenry by attempting to whitewash/cover-up what actually happened Saturday, as opposed to putting all the available facts on the table. This type of action on the part of the local goobermint invariably generates one or more replays of this incident in future. Pls note that I make NO comment whatever about who is at fault here, although, given my quite intimate familiarity w/Ferguson, it seems pretty obvious to me. We shall see, eh?

FReegards to you!