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re: Depressing Small Southern Cities
Posted on 6/22/20 at 11:39 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Posted on 6/22/20 at 11:39 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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How much time have you spent in rural Louisiana and Mississippi?
I have lived in the rural South and know much of the rural Deep South decently well. Some of the rural Midwest has become just as big of a shithole.
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Posted on 6/22/20 at 11:42 pm to DeltaTigerDelta
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Macon and Columbus, GA
I would not agree on Columbus. The areas near the base are no great shakes but much of it is just bland arse suburbia and perfectly fine. Phenix City is a dump.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 11:43 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
TulaneLSUs top 10 depressing small southern cities
Posted on 6/22/20 at 11:51 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
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Depressing Small Southern Cities
Vicksburg Ms. There is like a three block area downtown that has seen some gentrification and improvement but the rest of downtown vburg and most of vburg in general is just depressing.
Posted on 6/23/20 at 12:29 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
Northwest Arkansas needs to get their act together. Probably the worst city/metro in the South.
Posted on 6/23/20 at 12:37 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
I’m in Gunnison, Mississippi right now.
I truly don’t think a town get get sadder.
It’s a 43 minute drive to the nearest Walmart. I don’t think there’s a single “house” in this town that’s solid or sitting upright.
I truly don’t think a town get get sadder.
It’s a 43 minute drive to the nearest Walmart. I don’t think there’s a single “house” in this town that’s solid or sitting upright.
Posted on 6/23/20 at 1:18 am to Riseupfromtherubble
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You taking shite on Brewton but you wouldn’t have started at TR Miller
Brewton AL is high on the list of small towns that has had around 6k residents since the 1960s but now has enough, mainly decaying, buildings for a city of 40k.
The pine forested spaces that once added a bit of quaint, small town charm are now almost completely gone. Now, in their place are abandoned, rundown buildings and shopping centers (some just more than a decade old and every one of which seeming to have a parking lot that could hold half the cars in the entire county at the same time).
(I won't even get started on the high security prison influenced towers TR Miller HS added recently in its new addition)
This post was edited on 6/23/20 at 8:47 am
Posted on 6/23/20 at 6:30 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
Small towns have been dying for decades, mechanization Iof agriculture plus more opportunities in the cities..
Posted on 6/23/20 at 7:33 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
Tallulah, LA - I drove through there for the first time in many years recently and man has that place gone to $#!@. It was depressing.
Posted on 6/23/20 at 7:59 am to Ross
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I lived in Linden for a summer while I worked in Demopolis. The levels of poverty and sadness were off the chart.
I've driven through Linden many times on sales runs and stopped at the Jack's there a couple times.
That's the only thing worth noting in that town.
Definitely seems a step up from Uniontown (home of Frankie Sullivan) and Sweet Water. That's not saying much though
Posted on 6/23/20 at 8:01 am to La Place Mike
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Shreveport is probably the saddest story of all. That city could have actually been something. At one time Shreveport had more independent Oil and Gas producers then anywhere in the world. The Bossier Strip was an international entertainment district. Ah... what could have been.
Yep. There was a time when Shreveport was a bigger oil jobs hub than Dallas and Houston combined, and more a important hub of the music industry than Nashville. It really could have developed into a real major city that rivaled all of them. Mismanagement by state and local governments drove all of those opportunities away.
Posted on 6/23/20 at 8:23 am to Riseupfromtherubble
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You taking shite on Brewton but you wouldn’t have started at TR Miller
I guess we know where your hometown is now
sorry to hurt your feelings, but Brewton is a shite town And I had never even heard of that HS til just now, are they supposed to be good? A quick look at their Wikipedia page says their entire student body is about 200 kids less than just my graduating class, and they they haven't won state since 2002, when I was in 6th grade. I played for Hoover so I would've felt okay about finding a spot at some small-town 1980s has-been program
Posted on 6/23/20 at 8:26 am to UCFACTS4LIFE
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Every town in marshall county is a shithole except for Arab
Arab is a shite hole
the only reason I left them off my list earlier is bc it was already long enough, but they definitely came to mind 
Posted on 6/23/20 at 8:31 am to BowlJackson
It's not just a southern thing, plenty of this in the rust belt and even worse in remote areas. The iron ranges of Minnesota and northern Michigan for example. I love going there for work and take a few extra days to find some good food, really nice folks, but not what it used to be. Same thing out west, too. If you ever go wheelin outside of Tucson some of those old mining towns are just crushing to look at.
Posted on 6/23/20 at 8:50 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
Bogalusa
Posted on 6/23/20 at 8:56 am to wm72
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Brewton AL
Was there yesterday for the first time. shite hole status confirmed.
Posted on 6/23/20 at 9:02 am to Hester Carries
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Those cities exist literally everywhere. This isnt a southern thing.
It's infinitely worse in the south. 7 of the poorest 10 states in the country are in the south.
Posted on 6/23/20 at 9:07 am to DeltaTigerDelta
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Macon
Macon is more disturbing than depressing.
Now, if you've ever run through Sparta, GA, then you'll know depressing. Lock your doors, too.
Posted on 6/23/20 at 9:53 am to LSUtwolves
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It's infinitely worse in the south. 7 of the poorest 10 states in the country are in the south.
The problem isnt the poorness of those towns. Its that they are only that. Like I'd rather be in bumfrick poorville Alabama than warzone shite street Chicago. But Chicago has a billionaire enclave 2 blocks over and 74 floors up to skew those numbers back up.
Posted on 6/23/20 at 10:35 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
Greenville, Ms does this. Do does Meridian and West Point. Decent sized towns but are just shitholes. I lived in Greenville when I was a little kid and it was a decent place then. It’s gone to shite. Shuttered shopping centers and restaurants all over, nothing on the hwy 82 except sketchy gas stations, fast food, used car lots and title loan places.
Kroger closed. Kmart closed. Numerous small shops in strip malls. Shoneys closed. Just a desolate looking place. The southern tip on Hwy 1 around wal Mart is about the only halfway decent area left. Don’t even think about venturing downtown unless you’re going to the casino on the lake.
Kroger closed. Kmart closed. Numerous small shops in strip malls. Shoneys closed. Just a desolate looking place. The southern tip on Hwy 1 around wal Mart is about the only halfway decent area left. Don’t even think about venturing downtown unless you’re going to the casino on the lake.
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