Holder's intrusion into Ferguson Missouri affairs will lead to white flight and will look like E. St. Louis in 10 years.
In 1990, Ferguson, Mo. was a middle class suburban enclave north of St. Louis with a population about three-quarters white. In 2000, the town’s population was roughly split between black and white with an unemployment rate of 5%. By 2010, the population was two-thirds black, unemployment had exceeded 13%, and the number of residents living in poverty had doubled in a decade.
East St. Louis only 12 miles away. The racial makeup of the city was 1.23%
White, 97.74%
Black or
African-American,
According to
FBI's data of 2007, the murder rate of East St. Louis hit 101.9 per population of 100,000, surpassing that of cities such as
Gary, Indiana (48.3 per pop. 100,000);
New Orleans, Louisiana (37.6);
Baltimore, Maryland (43.3); and Detroit, Michigan (47.3); as well as that of its neighbor St. Louis (37.2). FBI data shows East St. Louis' rate of rape exceeded 250 per population of 100,000. The murder rate of city of East St. Louis is even higher than that of
Honduras, the country with the highest murder rate in the world, at 90.4 per 100,000 people.
Get that a higher murder rate than Honduras. the country with the highest murder rate in the world, at 90.4 per 100,000 people.
