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.
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Full (accurate) Headline:
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
There are some strange shaped bits of the new city being excluded.
I looked it up. It was unincorporated. It actually became its own city in 2019. But lawsuits happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._George,_Louisiana
Oh yeah - but when “poor black residents” do the same thing they’re stunning and heroic.
Hah! Before anyone starts claiming racism as whites want to disassociate themselves from blacks, check out the wealthy black residents of St. George.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._George,_Louisiana#Notable_people
You could probably use Brown vs Board case to justify the use of vouchers. Especially, now that they’re going to establish St. George. So as a parent in Baton Rogue, you’ll demand the right to enroll your children at a school of your choice.
That’s throwing a monkey wrench into Obama’s plans to take over the Burbs.
In before, “It’s racist if you don’t let us destroy your schools, steal your money, and “randomly” kill you.”
Yup, look at all that white privilege of which they're getting rid. Things are looking up for Baton Rouge!
The area is unincorporated.
There is the City of Baton Rouge
There is the Parish of Baton Rouge.
The parish has an unusual system where the City and the Parish are run by the same people.
I believe there are currently five incorporated areas in the Parish of Baton Rouge.
Such as the City of Central.
So they are NOT breaking away from the Parish of Baton Rouge. They will still be in the Parish.
They are making their own City within this Parish.
This whole fight was about forming an independent school district. The Parish refused them that right, and told them they had to incorporate to separate the school system.
Looks like they finally made it.
1. There was some very aggressive (illegal in my view) incorporation by Baton Rouge.
2. Then there was the exclusion of areas that did not want to be a party to the new city in the prior vote.
“ 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%.”
I knew the headline was a lie and that non-whites, including black, would also live in the city.
Yes. This is their goal.
One problem, Blacks vote for Dems, Dems are owned by teachers unions and are opposed to vouchers and competition to the failing public schools. Blacks need to stop voting en bloc for Dems.
Wealthy famous blacks live there. See post 25
Now why do they do that? St. George must be racist, right?
They live there the same as wealthy white people. They want to be safe, secure and far away from crime and bad schools.
That’s the same thing that some areas of Atlanta’s Fulton County Georgia have done or tried to do, especially in the N and NE regions outside the perimeter where Fulton extends.
Yep....lots of little cities closer in next to Atlanta....take away that damned city governments raping of the tax base to support inner city nonsense programs and largess...
In the coming year this community will need military grade defenses.
Atlanta will fight tooth and nail to keep the tax bonanza of Buckhead from seceding.
And no that does NOT mean banning black people it means no more government forced programs. Same with illegals.
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