Posted on 03/31/2014 6:27:23 AM PDT by Red Badger
Saginaw, Michigan - Lefty Frizzell
I was born in Saginaw, Michigan.
I grew up in a house on Saginaw Bay.
My dad was a poor hard working Saginaw fisherman:
Too many times he came home with too little pay.
I loved a girl in Saginaw, Michigan.
The daughter of a wealthy, wealthy man.
But he called me: “That son of a Saginaw fisherman.”
And not good enough to claim his daughter’s hand.
Now I’m up here in Alaska looking around for gold.
Like a crazy fool I’m a digging in this frozen ground, so cold.
But with each new day I pray I’ll strike it rich and then,
I’ll go back home and claim my love in Saginaw, Michigan.
I wrote my love in Saginaw, Michigan.
I said: “Honey, I’m a coming home, please wait for me.
“And you can tell your dad, I’m coming back a richer man
“I’ve hit the biggest strike in Klondyke history.”
Her dad met me in Saginaw, Michigan.
He gave me a great big party with champagne.
Then he said: “Son, you’re wise, young ambitious man.
“Will you sell your father-in-law your Klondyke claim?”
Now he’s up there in Alaska digging in the cold, cold ground.
The greedy fool is a looking for the gold I never found.
It serves him right and no-one here is missing him.
Least of all the newly-weds of Saginaw, Michigan.
We’re the happiest man and wife in Saginaw, Michigan.
He’s ashamed to show his face in Saginaw, Michigan.
Even back in the early 1990s, it was dangerous. My parents lived in the Cocoa Beach area, then moved one town north, always walking distance to the beach. People would get assaulted and robbed walking to the beach alone even back then. There was already a very heavy concentration of non-productive, drug/alcohol addicted and third-worlders living homeless or nearly so. Driving is insane. Then, it got even worse with extensive building of high-rise condos on the beachfront. Add to that how easy it was to get ripped off in any transaction and how much the medical care was geared toward maxing what Medicare would pay.
I'd love to live somewhere with a nice safe beach, both for weather and physical safety, where at some point a car isn't necessary. I don't know if that exists in FL anymore.
I lived there a short time and really never heard anything about crime being an issue. Maybe the downtown area has problems?
Below are a few explanations of how it came to be.
Some of it might be true.
When Republicans Were Blue and Democrats Were Red
The Story Behind Red States and Blue States
obama’s sons and his beloved immigrants are turning the country into a hell hole.
They’re almost all RED.
Demographics. Guess what this % refers to.
1. Wilmington, DE - 58.0%
2. Canton, OH - 21.04%
3. Jackson, TN - 45.07%
4. Rocky Mount, NC - 61.3%
5. North Little Rock, AR - 33.98%
6. Pensacola, FL - 28.0%
7. Daytona Beach, FL - 35.4%
8. Homestead, FL - 20.4%
8. Lauderhill, FL - 75.9%
10. Warner Robins, GA - 36.60%
Try Oklahoma, the Texas High Plains, and cities in the central and northern Plains states. Also Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming. The smaller cities in the Missouri and Arkansas Ozarks are conservative as well. Ditto for North Florida, upstate South Carolina, and the Virginia Piedmont and Shenandoah Valley.
Thanks Munro!
Not so long ago most of Florida was a typical law & order southern state.
But it has gradually become infested with transplanted liberals who are determined to recreate the liberal cess pits they just escaped from "back home".
Now most of Florida has become a place where you can clearly view the benefits of diversity in action.....
Huff! Here out West we have not had a murder in my small city since the 1950s and violent crimes are unheard of. My only brush with crime was petty vandalism.
Thanks for the list.
I’ll be driving to Florida this summer and was going to make Rocky Mount, NC a midway stopping point. Looking at your list, I see that Rocky Mount is far worse than New Britain, CT. Yikes.
I’ve stayed in nearby Wilson, NC before and it was a really nice town...I think I’ll stay in Wilson instead.
If they listed towns of 75K or more N.J. would be well represented. Without even thinking too hard I come up with Camden, Newark, East Orange, Orange, Irvington, etc etc etc.
The list is endless.
The statistics might reflect a tendency for citizens in those small cities to report all crimes and enough law enforcement to investigate them.
In larger cities perhaps suspicious deaths are listed as suicides, undetermined or accidents etc., and not murders.
What’s missing from that chart is if it is run by democRats, Rinos, or Conservatives.
I’d like to see THAT statistic.
Blue bloods are too sheltered. They need to get red necks.
Hmmmm, what do all of these cities have in common?
In the 80’s, the Great White Flight took place in Pensacola. They moved out of the “city.” They moved across the Escambia Bay to Gulf Breeze, to the south, east, to the Pace/Milton area, or west, to Perdido Key. These areas, today, are still predominately white areas with excellent schools and few crimes.
Their vacated homes are now inhabited by minorities and the neighborhoods are rundown and high crime areas.
I know. We took a ride down our old street awhile back and turned around after two blocks because it looked so bad! (The elementary school where I taught had 6 black students, in 1977 when I left. Today it is predominately black.)
Mobile, Alabama is much larger than Pensacola, and the white flight is very visible in their Eastern Shore population. I expect this has happened all over the US.
For the most part in my state, there's at least a "buffer zone" between the areas.
My small city, Charlevoix,Mi.has to rate as one of the
nicest /safest cities in the whole U.S.A.
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