My grandparents were from South St Louis, over by Lindenwood Park. But I worked at the old Lutheran Medical Center downtown by the brewery for years and I knew people who lived in Shaw. This is not where these people live. They are imported.
I grew up at 55 and Virginia. Left for a few years, and when I came back the entire neighborhood had changed, literally in five years. I used to visit friends on the states streets, now that is overcome with warring gangs. Window shopped on Cherokee street, now that is a focal point for illegal aliens to get filtered in and get false documents.
St. Louis and much of St. Louis County is done after this.