Posted on 04/22/2019 8:58:39 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
ST. LOUIS • Continuing recent trends, new census data show the city of St. Louis is still losing population, with the overall metropolitan area registering hardly any growth at all.
The new estimates, released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau, also show St. Charles County had the biggest gain in population in the area from 2017 to 2018, while the population of St. Louis County, the region’s most populous, essentially remained the same.
It’s a familiar dynamic. The city started bleeding population in the 1950s as suburbs grew; St. Charles County started booming a generation later.
For the city, though, the latest estimates come as a blow, especially given the apparent resurgence of investment, including new housing — much of it in the central corridor along Highway 40 (Interstate 64).
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Here in NJ this would be temporary trend; as the money flees the cities, the government (at county and state levels) just casts a wider net to re-direct money back into the urban sh!tholes. First productive people fled the cities, then the worst counties; now they are leaving the state altogether.
...people show common sense, vote with their feet. Better Together? No, better to sever, forever.
At least Missouri, unlike New Jersey or Maryland, has enough conservative voters outside the two big cities, to keep it light red, unlike the two deep blue East Coast hellholes.
We did a family vacation back in the ‘70s, took a wrong turn and ended up in East St. Louis.
Dad said “Everyone lock the doors and we are going to get out of here ASAP”
Nothing scared Dad!
“Roll ‘em up!”
I had the most awesome childhood in O’Fallon, Illinois(home of Scott AFB).
Even though it is right close to St.Louis, there was next to no black people there in the mid 70s.
Such great memories of my dad taking us to the old Busch stadium to watch the Cardinals.
I saw Mad Al Hrabsky, a very young Keith Hernandez, Lou Brock, Ted Simmons, Bake McBride, etc.
One of our favorite hangouts as kids was in the houses that were being built. It’s also where we got the wood for our forts.
The 2019 population for O’Fallon is now 29,000. In the near future, I’m going back to relive the good old days.
I wonder if those guys know “The Commodores” ?
You see that place that says, “Rib Tips”?
NJ’s demise is recent, as Americans stream out of the state. For Christ Christie to win twice spoke volumes about this state; whatever people think of him today, he had all the right enemies - an anti-tax, pro-life Republican in a northeastern state.
True.
NJ, MD, IL are finished.
Many years ago, the city of St Louis divorced itself from the County of St. Louis. It seemed like a good idea at the time, the city was prosperous and the county was a bunch of hicks in the sticks. Now the city is a mere shell of what it once was having lost over 60% of its population over the last 70 years. Now there is a move afoot to let the city annex the county. Several cities in the county want nothing to do with it. Obviously St Louis city wants the tax base the county represents.
I’m probably older than you. We used to go back to IL every summer to see our relatives. Went to a few Cardinals games in the late fifties and early sixties. My brother and I are 4th generation (at least!) Cardinals fans.
Nice.
I’m a Braves fan first.
But, when they’re not in it, I root for the Cards all the way.
My brother loved Pujols.
As a teen, that same brother almost got mobbed when he tried to hang a St. Louis Cardinal football banner up in the Washington Redskins Stadium(mid to late 70s). My dad quickly told him to abort the mission. Dad was in no mood to try to fight off a crowd.
Ha, ha, yeah people get crazy about their teams. Best not to bring enemy banners into the home stadium.
Pujols made me very sad when he left the way he did. We don’t speak his name in the house now. ;-)
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