Oh, they be so broad-minded and accepting there in Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, where I spent my late high school and college years and
beyond. Where my wife's family, or rather a substantial portion of it
still resides, one of my brothers and my mom, and where we're gonna be
for Christmas this year. Home of the LSU Tigers and all that. Well, I'm
surprised to learn that the white southern portion of town has proposed
seceding from the rest of the city of Baton Rouge and renaming itself
"St. George" (extraneous side note: when I was in grad school at LSU,
Susan, Tanya, and I lived in a little subdivision called "Village St.
George" and Tanya went to St. George Elementary School.). And they're
circulating a petition in the proposed area to get the measure on the
ballot. I'll give you one guess as to the majority in the part of town
that will remain "Baton Rouge." Gold star if you said: majority of black
and poor people.
I didn't even know such a thing was
possible. But in Louisiana, anything is possible, especially if it has
the tint of stink about it. I'll keep ya posted on developments.
Source which includes a video with maps and various people talking about the petition. Purportedly it's basically about the school districts.
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