For years we've had to deal with our race-obsessed left-wing betters talking about "white flight," which is the term they use to describe any instance of a white family leaving a dysfunctional city center in favor of better environs. It's one of those catch-all terms that smug academics use in place of real debate.
But it's also old, stale, tired, well-worn. An exciting new term has now hit the market just in time for the 2024 season:
"White fortressing."
The Louisiana Supreme Court last month cleared a path for the creation of a new city, St. George, after a prolonged legal battle over the feasibility of the city and its implications for tax revenue.
St. George would take almost 100,000 residents away from East Baton Rouge Parish, and critics say it will deplete the parish of the resources from this wealthier, whiter community.
Urban Institute scholars Luisa Godinez-Puig and Brian Smedley call this kind of zoning plan "white fortressing," and they claim these types of "secessions" (their word) perpetuate "modern-day segregation" while "limit[ing] opportunity for left-behind communities."
You can't make it up anymore.
I'm just thinking that maybe, possibly, there's something more significant going on here than nefarious white racial machinations.
Here, for example, is one explanation, from residents of St. George themselves:
Proponents of the new city in Louisiana argue that this is a move towards fairness, rather than isolation. On their website, they state: 'St. George's taxpayers provide two-thirds of the revenue to the East Baton Rouge Parish government with only one-third of that government's expense in return. Incorporating a city would reverse this unjust circumstance to an extent.'
So basically their argument is: "We're tired of receiving only half of what we put into this municipality. We want more bang for our buck."
There's nothing wrong with that! If a town's residents are willing to be philanthropic and plow their tax revenue into a municipality that gives little back to them, that's commendable. If they actually want their money to pay for the public services they use, that's very understandable.
Here's another interesting point to note about this alleged "white fortressing:"
St. George's demographics are quite different from the parish it is part of: Only 12% of the proposed new city's residents would be Black, while nearly half of the remaining population in East Baton Rouge Parish would be African-American.
Hmm. That 12% figure sounds familiar. Where have I heard it ...?
Oh yes, the U.S. Census Bureau!
The racists in St. George are so racist that their new white fortress will essentially retain the racial demographics of the United States!
So this new "white fortress" practice is basically people who (a) want their tax money's worth and (b) whose enclaves are representative of the U.S. racial makeup as a whole.
I think "white flight" was a more successful buzzword than this. Sequels are rarely as good!
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