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It really goes beyond the mayor. Cedric Glover was a democrat and everyone loved him. That’s back when movies were being made and LSU won the BCSNC. The Boardwalk was popping every weekend, etc.

However, the last two Dem mayors were pretty much ineffectual. They didn’t really do anything. The DA and the City Council haven’t done anything about the explosion of juvenile crime. When we first moved to Shreveport in 2004, the Anderson Island neighborhood was mostly white and definitely not ghetto. It was starting to get that way 18 years later when we left town. BTW, one of these apt complexes is in that neighborhood.

The Highlands neighborhood was very transitional, now it has completely transitioned the wrong way.

Caddo Schools are bullshite. I swear half the kids I taught were somehow special Ed or learning disabled. They are raising entire generations of kids that are of no use to society. The ones that can leave do leave once they get a degree.

There’s lots of old money in Shreveport, but none of those folks are really doing anything except keeping certain institutions going. Like the opera, symphony, Highland Jazz and Blues Festival, parades, Red River Revel, etc. One of my friends who worked at the tourist bureau said that less than a hundred people are responsible for all the artsy stuff that happens in Shreveport. And they are constantly fighting folks who demand more inclusion for every single thing, but from a population that doesn’t support Jack crap.

All the conservatives have moved to Bossier or south of town. All they do anyway is blame black people and teachers (sounds familiar). The majority of the white population left in town are progressive white guilters who are in la-la land as far as who is at fault and what should be done about Shreveport’s decline. We lived in South Highlands and were surrounded by folks like that. I imagine our old street will be ghetto within 10-20 years.

It also didn’t help that lefties and righties both seemed to hate Shreveport. They were all miserable. When a news article was posted about something new coming to town, it was all bitching and no excitement.

Shreveport is an amalgamation of Louisiana. It was a sinking ship and I’m glad we got off and didn’t sit there and play the violin.

This post was edited on 5/9/24 at 10:13 am