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Voluntary white separatism: is segregation returning to the southern US?
A group of wealthy white residents in the black-majority Louisiana city of Baton Rouge have been permitted to split from the city in a move termed ‘neosegregationist’ — and they are not the first, writes NATALIA MARQUES
A mural depicting civil rights victories in a poor black area in Baton Rouge
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DAVID HORSLEY remembers the remarkable life and death of US black revolutionary George Jackson, whose politically passionate prison letters were published as Soledad Brother
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THE state Supreme Court in the southern US state of Louisiana, on April 26, gave the city of St George the right to secede from the larger capital city of Baton Rouge.
This has cleared the way for a group of wealthy white Baton Rouge residents to carve out a majority-white enclave of the largely black city — recalling the history in the US of segregation and white flight.
Wealthy, white residents of Baton Rouge have been trying to secede from the rest of the city in some shape or form for over a decade. In 2012, a group of parents went to the state legislature to propose the creation of a separate school district which they called the Southeast Community School District. This effort failed, but the following year they tried once again and also failed.
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