[cbozeman]

It totally depends on who you want to believe.

Ask people in Jackson, they'll tell you it's the evil Republican leaders' faults.

Ask all the people that moved out of Jackson to the surrounding cities of Madison, Ridgeland, Flowood, etc. and they'll tell you it's corruption in the city legislature.

[MrBuddyCasino]

It is also worth looking at who is moving out and who is staying, and the broader long-term implications for the functioning of a community when looking at certain patterns over time.

[cbozeman]

The middle class are moving out. The upper middle class already left. The wealthy already left.

The very wealthy enclave of people who are keeping the barbarians at the gate of Eastover are staying, but not for long. Even though these people own houses that are 100+ years old - many of them family homes - they know it's only a matter of time until some drugged up lowlife stumbles into their yard and causes trouble. I don't know what'll become of all those beautiful homes in Eastover, but if this continues, I guess they'll be sold on the cheap and written off as a loss?

Looks like it's already happening - https://www.trulia.com/p/ms/jackson/2733-quail-run-rd-jackso...

You'll know for sure it's bad when the Holmans move out of Jackson, if they haven't already. If you're wondering who they are, watch the movie The Help. Hilly Holbrook is based on Sondra Holman, although of course they'll deny it to their dying day.

If, when you said, "look who's moving out and look who's staying", you meant "black people are staying and white people are moving out," that's not really accurate, it's that there's a significant Venn diagram overlap with poor people and black people. Jackson has been around 80% black for a *very* long time now. It really is just coming down to "those with money" and "those without money".

[throwayyy479087]

I can absolutely believe that a mid size, poor city in Mississippi is extremely corrupt and incompetent. That others don’t is wild to me.