“The predominantly white and wealthy residents of the southern area of Baton Rouge have proposed seceding from the city proper and incorporating into a new one to be called “St. George.” The movement began as an effort to create a new school district, but after the state legislature repeatedly mothballed its proposals — claiming that they could not approve an independent school district that was unaffiliated with a city — organizers shifted their energies to the creation of “St. George.” The new city would be the fifth largest in the state, with over 107,000 residents, and would include two of the largest tax revenue bases in the state: Perkins Rowe and the Mall of Louisiana. A studyby the Baton Rouge Area Chamber concluded that Baton Rouge residents “will be disproportionately paying taxes to the proposed municipality,” given city governance’s reliance on sales tax revenues…”.* Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola (host of TYT University and Common Room), Michael Shure and comedian Jimmy Dore break it down on The Young Turks.
*Read more here from Scott Kaufman / The Raw Story: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/01/affluent-white-residents-of-south-baton-rouge-propose-seceding-from-citys-poor-black-northern-areas/
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as a resident of Baton Rouge who has no intention of moving to St. George, our city needs to annex the Mall and let them have their city. It is pretty telling when that corner of the parish has over 100,000 people, and only 1 high school. Call it “white rewrite” or whatever smug label you want to attach to it, but it stems from decades of failed public education, and failure to fix the problem. Perhaps now our city will realize there is an underlying problem with our city government, and be less accepting of subpar results to any public expense (for those of you who don’t live here and are observing from afar…said problem is the city/parish government itself).