Not to be insulting or anything but during my limited number of encounters with Louisville (Fort Knox 1969-70) it didn’t strike me as a particularly prosperous city.Easy to see how it might not have been the safest or calmest one either.
Lol. It’s changed “a bit” since then. We have the UPS hub, HQ for YUM! and Humana and have two Ford production plants... It’s come up in the world. But, there is also a large minority population in the downtown area, and they’ve been herded into absolutely FAILING public schools for the past 20-30 years. There are many “families” who are now multi-generation on government subsidy programs. They know no other way of living.
Add to this the on-going drug culture, and it’s pretty much an urban disaster in the west end. Louisville is very divided city.