[rdl6989]

I don’t think the Ferguson riots helped St. Louis much.

[hanamizu]

...Ferguson riots

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St Louis decline predates Ferguson by decades. The city’s population in 1950 was over 800,000 and it shows. Driving on the Interstates will take you through great swaths of abandoned, boarded up buildings—homes, churches, factories, etc. And of course the ‘Ferguson problem’ is heavily present in St Louis city as well.

St Louis city separated itself from St Louis county many years ago, so its city limits are locked in—it can’t expand. As producers fled the city for the county so did the tax base.

On a happier note, at some point St Louis will drop out of the running for “murder capital of the US” simply because it won’t have enough population to qualify for the competition.