Michael Brown's hometown: The Truth of 67% Black Ferguson, Missouri

Suburbs exist for one reason: the opportunity for white people to keep alive some flame of the civilization their white ancestors built over centuries on a landmass previously occupied by illiterate, nomadic tribes. 

St. Louis long ago quit being a city capable of preserving the civilization white people created, with the regression to the black mean a mere formality at this point. 

Rioting/looting by blacks in 67 percent black Ferguson, Missouri after vigil for Michael Brown... notice the shirt

In 1950, St. Louis was 82 percent white and 17.9 percent black (coincidentally, the same year it reached its peak population of 856,000.] 

Today, St. Louis is 49 percent black and 43 percent white. 

One guess as to what happened.

Crime. 

Black crime. 

A regression to the black mean is permanent in Ferguson, Missouri 

More importantly, the legitimate fear of white people that they may become victims of black crime(or seeing their property values suffer the economic fact or racial differences and depreciate to the black mean). 

But wherever whites go and build a civilization out of the wilderness, the same forces that ensure the wilderness returns follows... just ask the few remaining white people in Spanish Lake (North St. Louis County).

Talk about 'mapping decline" all you want; the only statistic that matters to a city's viability is its percentage of black people. More than 10 percent, and your city is inevitably doomed. 

Here's what white people correctly flee from in St. Louis (remember, the city is 49 percent black and 43 percent white). According to 2012 Metropolitan Police Department, City of St. Louis: Annual Report to the Community:

• 84.7% of those arrested for aggravated assault in St. Louis in 2012 were black.

• 91.8% of those arrested for robbery in St. Louis in 2012 were black.

• 97.6% of those arrested for murder in St. Louis in 2012 were black.

Crime, in St. Louis, has a color. 

It's black. 

Which brings us to Michael Brown's hometown of Ferguson, a once lily-white suburb of St. Louis. 

Out of population of 21,000 (roughly), the city is 28 percent white and 67 percent black. 

Back in 2000, the city was 44 percent white and 52.7 percent black (out of roughly 22,000). 

Here's the main point about what life is like in this city where the civilization whites created is quickly being replaced by a fast regression to the black mean (and the abandonment of business, tax-base, and hope that comes with white flight): 

WHITE FLIGHT: Ferguson and other parts of north St. Louis County were predominantly white communities before school desegregation. The community’s racial makeup changed as many white suburban families moved to outlying areas such as St. Charles County, parts of which are more than 40 miles from St. Louis. 

DEMOGRAPHICS: About two-thirds of residents are now black. Fewer than half of the approximately 9,100 homes are owner-occupied, and about a quarter of residents live below the federal poverty level. 

SCHOOLS: Several North County school districts – including the Normandy system from which Brown recently graduated – have lost state accreditation because of declining test scores and other academic shortcomings. Some students from the failing districts were bused to better-performing schools in other districts. 

RACIAL PROFILING: Some Ferguson protesters say members of the city’s predominantly white police force disproportionately target black motorists during traffic stops. A 2013 report by the Missouri attorney general’s office found that Ferguson police stopped and arrested black drivers nearly twice as frequently as white motorists but were also less likely to find contraband among the black drivers.

Read more here: http://www.sunherald.com/2014/08/11/5740443/a-look-at-town-where-police-shot.html#storylink=cpy

 Interesting, but that doesn't tell us enough about the city 18-year-old Michael Brown was reared in... but this does. [Blame poverty, age for weak North County home market, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 8-18-2013]:

Barbara Bandy has been trying to sell her house for nearly a year, with no luck. Could the problem be that it’s in north St. Louis County? 

She was optimistic when she started. It’s a nice Cape Cod with four bedrooms and two baths, built in the 1950s. In 2011, the St. Louis County assessor put its value at $117,500. She says she spent $20,000 fixing it up for sale. 

“I’m up to here on credit,” she says, holding her hand up to her nose. 

But when Bandy put it on the market, it sat. It wouldn’t sell at $98,000. 

She cut the price to $94,000. She switched real estate agents, cut the price to $84,500 and still it sits. 

“Now they want me to strike the price down again. Do you think that’s fair?” asks the elderly widow, who lived in the house for 40 years. 

Her real estate agent also wants her to offer to finance part of the buyer’s mortgage. “What do they think I am? A bank?” 

Her problem may be location. Her house is in Ferguson. 

Ferguson is a picture of pleasant suburbia, a town of tree-lined streets and well-kept homes, much of them built for the middle class at mid-century. 

But Ferguson is in north St. Louis County, and the area is suffering from one of the region’s weakest real estate markets. That’s worrying county officials, who fear it may reflect deeper economic problems in parts of North County. 

Prices throughout the St. Louis area have stabilized after a long slide, and may have begun rising. CoreLogic, a real estate data company, says prices in June were up 4.9 percent from a year earlier in metro St. Louis. 

In North County, however, prices remain weak and may be sinking still.

Ferguson, Missouri is 27 percent white today (it was 44 percent white in 2000). A white officer stands watch as black riots break out near African Depot: Beauty Supplies...

“We see a continuing decline in home prices in North County, and it’s been steeper than in the rest of the county,” said County Assessor Jake Zimmerman. 

County officials and real estate pros give these reasons: 

• The spread of poverty into a wider area of North County. 

• The hangover from the subprime lending spree of the last decade. That, combined with a loss of jobs, left North County with an abundance of foreclosed houses selling cheap, usually to landlords who turn them into rentals. 

• An older stock of housing, much of it small and out of fashion. 

North County is a big place, and it can’t be painted with one brush. Much of Hazelwood, Florissant, Overland, Ferguson and other towns are solidly middle class. Some neighborhoods are monuments to stability. 

But poverty is expanding out from long-suffering inner-ring suburbs toward areas north and west. Two of the area’s school districts — Normandy and Riverview Gardens — lost their accreditation, making families with children look elsewhere. 

The result of all that is a weak real estate market, even in many middle-class neighborhoods in untroubled school districts. 

According to the assessor, the median value of residential property in the county dropped 7 percent in the two years ending January of this year. But the losses were highest in the north. 

Six of the county’s seven school districts with more-than-average value declines were north of Page Avenue. Losses topped double digits in districts bordering the city of St. Louis — 12 percent in Jennings, 15.4 percent in Normandy, and 23.9 percent in Riverview Gardens. Losses were 13.4 percent in Ritenour, 9.2 percent in Ferguson-Florissant, 9 percent in Hazelwood and 6.2 percent in Pattonville. 

St. Louis County saw a 21 percent increase in black population during the last decade, census figures show, while the white population dropped 10 percent.Much of that demographic shift was reflected in North County. Ferguson, for example, went from 52 percent black in 2000 to 67 percent in 2010. 

That increase may play into perceptions of real estate values. Walking streets in Ferguson, and speaking randomly to residents of both races, a reporter found two white residents who volunteered that they felt the large black population meant lower real estate prices. 

But others didn’t mention race, and some prefer a mixed neighborhood. 

“I think it’s good that we have such a variety of people,” said Cathy Foushee, a 40-year Ferguson resident, who is white. “It’s a wonderful area in which to live. You know your neighbors. You get a sense of family and community.” 

In 2000, St. Louis County had no census tracts with “extreme poverty,” meaning that 40 percent or more were poor. Now there are two — in Wellston and the area known as Spanish Lake. There are 24 high-poverty tracts — defined as over 20 percent poor — up from 10 in 2000. 

“Concentrated poverty in St. Louis County has expanded to the northeast from its historic location in the inner-ring communities of North County,” said a county planning report issued this spring. “Bellefontaine Neighbors, Riverview and the unincorporated areas known as Spanish Lake, Glasgow Village and Castle Point all experienced a precipitous rise in residents living in poverty.”

Suburbs exist for one reason: the opportunity for white people to keep alive some flame of the civilization their white ancestors built over centuries on a landmass previously occupied by illiterate, nomadic tribes. 

St. Louis long ago quit being a city capable of preserving the civilization white people created, with the regression to the black mean a mere formality at this point. 

Because Freedom of Association (Restrictive Covenants) has been outlawed in the United States of America, every suburb of St. Louis will share the fate of the Ferguson and Spanish Lake.

Wherever whites go, the black undertow will follow: no matter what conservatives do at this point, it's merely rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic (with the band on the doomed boat replaced by recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance to a country that hates you and dooms your posterity to a fate worse than modern Detroit)....

There are some people who just want to watch the world burn; count me among them.

Funny thing though: we don't even have to light the match.

Nature will.

And inevitably Ferguson will soon be nothing more than 98 percent black East St. Louis.