this is a followup to this post i made a few days ago. stockbridge, georgia will remain in one, racially polarized piece--for now. the segregationist ideals and racism which drove this effort is...
this is a followup to this post i made a few days ago. stockbridge, georgia will remain in one, racially polarized piece--for now.
A ballot initiative to partition off the most affluent — and overwhelmingly white populated — sections of Stockbridge from its predominately black communities failed in Tuesday’s midterm voting. By a vote of 3,473 in favor and 4,545 in opposition, residents in the existing Henry County city rejected a controversial proposal to carve out a new town — to be called Eagle’s Landing — from within its boundaries.
the segregationist ideals and racism which drove this effort is pretty thinly veiled, to say the least, so i'm guessing that had to do with why the vote failed (along with racially polarized voting and probably some types which crossed over because they just plain disliked the idea).
As Mock described in the City Lab article, Stockbridge residents eschewed the traditional form of white flight of moving away from a community as it elects black leaders, instead opting to “[stand] their ground…building new municipal borders around their mansion and fortresses.”
Realizing their wealth wasn’t enough to support a new city on its own, Consiglio, a member of the Henry County zoning board, created a nonprofit group that plotted how to obtain tax receipts from a nearby shopping district that sits within Stockbridge to provide stable revenues for their proposed new city, a move that would raid the existing community’s coffers and impoverish its black residents. Additionally, they carved out other affluent parts of the county to make the numbers work in Eagle’s Landing’s favor.
Ford should remain vigilant as this effort to carve out a “whites-only” community probably isn’t done. As Consiglio told City Lab, she and her supporters want “to control what comes in here and what it looks like.”
“What’s wrong with wanting better?” she asked, rhetorically, “What’s wrong with being able to say I want to control what goes on around me?”
this is a followup to this post i made a few days ago. stockbridge, georgia will remain in one, racially polarized piece--for now.
the segregationist ideals and racism which drove this effort is pretty thinly veiled, to say the least, so i'm guessing that had to do with why the vote failed (along with racially polarized voting and probably some types which crossed over because they just plain disliked the idea).
So. Turns out Eagleton is real and just as douchey as you'd think.