It's called White Flight, and it's been going on, probably since the 1970s. I've even been a personal witness to this cultural phenomenon while growing up in suburbia. The cycle goes like this:
- White neighborhood in a city slowly changes as nonwhites get enough money to move in, whether through hard work or welfare money. Quality of the neighborhood goes down when the nonwhites bring in the negative parts of their culture, including crime, gangs, teen pregnancy, child neglect, and home neglect. Crime rate goes up, and things slowly go to shit.
- Whites get sick of the BS, particularly after their homes and cars have been broken into, or their kids get beat up on the way to/from school, so they move away to a new suburb some miles away.
- Things are nice at least for a decade, it's quiet, homes and goods are affordable, and kids can go to school in peace.
- Meanwhile, in the city, things get so bad even the nonwhites don't want to stay, so they move out, or the city uses taxpayer money to move them out, right over to the new suburb. New housing projects and Section 8 house pops up all over the place in the suburb. The very same people who ruined the neighborhoods in the city bring in the very same crap to the suburb that ruined their lives in the city: gangs, drugs, crime, home neglect, kids being unsafe, etc.
- After just a few years, the quality of life in the suburb drops just as it did in the city, and pretty soon, the suburb starts to resemble the city the whites left behind a decade or two earlier, and the whites have to deal with the same shit they left behind all over again.
- The cycle starts all over again.
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Corbell (8788)
12 days ago
The racial aspect of this is real, and I don't want to deny that. Especially as I am sure that that is a big part of why the majority black city of Baton Rouge didn't give a fuck about their interests.
BUT, I think that there is more here than just that. This is a almost half of a city that didn't feel represented by their own government.
HOw much of our country, doesn't feel represented by their various levels of government?
I sure as hell don't feel represented by my city, state or federal government at this point.
"my" mayor, "my" governor, "my" president, I feel that all of them are actively hostile to me and mine.
How many other people feel the same way?
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AmeriGirl26 (12493)
12 days ago
There's a reason shit like this happens at all. The problem with modern day govt. is, the only people drawn to politics are either delusional people with a Superman complex that want to "fix" the system (and they find out just how broken it is once they get inside), or people who lust for power. Often it's not a job that smart people want, because it's not rewarding in the least, and requires you to do a lot of things people better suited for the job simply don't want to have to deal with, such as making speeches, kissing asses, and getting people you don't like to help you pass laws that not everyone's gonna agree with.
I remember hearing about Hawaiians that want to secede from the Union because they don't think they should have to listen to a govt. whose headquarters are over 3,000 miles away. This became particularly noteworthy when Trump became president (yes, Hawaii is a blue state). It's interesting that the Secessionists are mostly just white, left-wing idiots (who didn't even live in Hawaii) that have their heads up in the clouds and apparently have an issue facing reality. I pointed out to them that if Hawaii left the union, not only would the islands starve in a week, but China would come in and take them over, and they would not enjoy China's rule over them compared to America's. They ignored me and kept pretending like leaving America would be paradise for them.
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