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Wealthy white Louisiana residents win right to form their own city and split from poorer black neighborhoods in landmark court ruling after a 10-year battle
Daily Mail ^ | April 29, 2024 | Isabelle Stanley

Posted on 04/29/2024 12:42:44 PM PDT by Tea Drinker

Wealthy white Baton Rouge residents have won a decade-long court battle to split from poorer neighborhoods and form their own city with plans for better schools and less crime.

The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the new City of St George could move forward with incorporation, splitting off from the rest of Baton Rouge.

St George will have 86,000 residents across a 60-square-mile area in the southeast of East Baton Rouge Parish and will have its own Mayor and city council.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: batonrouge; louisiana; stgeorge
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1 posted on 04/29/2024 12:42:44 PM PDT by Tea Drinker
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To: Tea Drinker

Next up the City of Buckhead, GA.


2 posted on 04/29/2024 12:46:03 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Tea Drinker
Buckhead Ridge…..I hope you're paying attention!
3 posted on 04/29/2024 12:46:23 PM PDT by liberalh8ter ( Ephesians 6:10 - 18)
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To: Tea Drinker

What about the universal human right to live next door to white people and their assets?


4 posted on 04/29/2024 12:47:21 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Tea Drinker

hehehe, separate but equal...

no wait...


5 posted on 04/29/2024 12:47:47 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: Tea Drinker

I hope this trend continues.


6 posted on 04/29/2024 12:47:58 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: packagingguy

And Atlanta too.


7 posted on 04/29/2024 12:48:17 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Tea Drinker

It matters. My example is the thin divide between Alameda and Oakland, which is separated only by bridges and a tunnel. Oakland’s side near the bridges and tunnel is a s***hole. Cross over and you have Dick and Jane communities less than a mile away. The same with the barrio part of Redwood City that borders Atherton, which is a super rich city in the Bay Area Peninsula.


8 posted on 04/29/2024 12:48:39 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: Tea Drinker

Gaslighting headline. Why should taxpayers have to subsidize the slackers who like high crime and crappy schools?


9 posted on 04/29/2024 12:49:08 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: Tea Drinker

If it’s racist “gentrification” for whites to move in, and racist “white flight” for whites to move out ... you might be a Democrat.


10 posted on 04/29/2024 12:49:31 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tea Drinker

Firm?

Why?

Was it swampy?...................


11 posted on 04/29/2024 12:50:02 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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#2: "Next up the City of Buckhead, GA."

I hope they build a 12 foot wall around it topped with broken glass and razor wire.

12 posted on 04/29/2024 12:50:13 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Tea Drinker

Walls around the wealthy ‘hoods will be next...with paid security.


13 posted on 04/29/2024 12:52:51 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Tea Drinker

I see no reason for black people to complain, finally they won’t have to put up with those creepy ass crackers causing trouble in da hood.


14 posted on 04/29/2024 12:54:50 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Tea Drinker

Time for vouchers in Louisiana so parents (I’m speaking of minority families) in Baton Rouge can pull out their kids from public schools and put them into schools where discipline is actually encouraged.


15 posted on 04/29/2024 12:57:36 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Good for the future citizens of St(sp) George. Maybe the State of Jefferson could happen.

Maybe those in Oregon who want to be citizens of Idaho can get their wish.

16 posted on 04/29/2024 12:59:00 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Tea Drinker

from the article “splitting off from the rest of Baton Rouge”

from wikipedia “The city originated from a previously unincorporated area of East Baton Rouge Parish located southeast of the City of Baton Rouge” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._George,_Louisiana

Was Saint George part of Baton Rouge or was it unincorporated? Or was it both and I just don’t understand the way cities and parishes work in Louisiana?


17 posted on 04/29/2024 1:00:09 PM PDT by JSM_Liberty
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To: MinorityRepublican

Minority Families in Red Stick are whites. Google search says....

Black or African American: 52.53% White: 37.21% Two or more races: 4.04% Asian: 3.82%.

But anyway - blacks or whites should be allowed vouchers....


18 posted on 04/29/2024 1:02:08 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Correct, school vouchers are the one and the only solution to the problem. Not perfect, but still a huge improvement.


19 posted on 04/29/2024 1:03:43 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy ( )
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To: Responsibility2nd

Speaking of demographics.....

St. George has a population of 86,316 within its proposed city limits. Whites make up more than 70% of that population, and African Americans make up 12%.


20 posted on 04/29/2024 1:04:46 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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