“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.

Supporters of the new city say that the existing city-parish government is poorly run, with high crime rates and bad schools.

Opponents say the movement is 'racist' [of course they say that] and will create a 'white enclave' as it separates a wealthy area of the city from the majority Black city and school district. …”

DailyMail article:
https://mol.im/a/13362499

Excellent. I'm very glad to see this and hope to see more of it in major cities all over this country.

Too bad that there wasn't a similar outcome for the residents of Buckhead in GA. Perhaps they'll get another chance at some point to determine their own destiny like those of St George, LA.

What happened to Buckhead's efforts? The last I heard it sounded like they were going to be successful.

East Baton Rouge has been sucking them dry for years. Raising taxes because they well off to support the failed policy’s of EBR and make connected ones rich while screwing over the predominantly minority public schools etc etc (minority IS the majority in EBR)

Good, gives me hope for Eagle Exit. Eagle River is trying to break away from the Municipality of Anchorage. They've been trying for years but Anchorage has been fighting tooth and nail. The recent separation of Sandy Springs, GA is being used as the example. I'm tired of having the 5th highest property tax rate in the country and getting very little in return for it.

https://www.eaglexit.com

TEXIT time.

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Originally posted by 12131:

TEXIT time.

Will my U.S. passport be valid in Texas?

if they are smart they will have their own PD as well

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Originally posted by 12131:
TEXIT time.

I'm in.

Holy shit, people who want to live in peace and send their kids to schools that care are racist. What the hell happened to the human race?

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Originally posted by marksman41:
What happened to Buckhead's efforts? The last I heard it sounded like they were going to be successful.

Georgia Gov. Kemp deals blow to Buckhead suburb trying to secede from Atlanta over violent crime

Georgia senators reject Buckhead efforts to leave Atlanta

Buckhead breakaway bid over ‘for now’ after Georgia Senate rejects Atlanta split

'There's no point in being here': Leader of group that failed to push white, wealthy neighborhood of Buckhead to secede from Atlanta packs his bags - and vows to move to Florida

Thanks, nhrace. What a disappointing result.

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Originally posted by golddot:
if they are smart they will have their own PD as well

They will not . The Sheriff will provide Law Enforcement .

The opposite has been occurring for decades in Texas. Large Texas cities annexing unincorporated areas. For example, Houston annexed Kingwood (master planned community of about 40,000 people) in '96 and it was very unpopular for reasons such as water bills tripled for Kingwood residents. Houston's mayor openly spoke about the increase in tax base being a driver for the annexation.

'99, '17 and '19 legislation reform made it harder for big cities like Houston to annex.

I'd like to see portions of cities (e.g. Kingwood) be able to secede. Especially when they're in a different county that the big city.