After a decadelong legal tussle, affluent white residents in Louisiana have secured approval to carve out their own city, sparking debate over racial segregation and economic fallout in Baton Rouge.
Wealthy white Louisiana residents have emerged victorious in a court ruling granting them the right to secede from their poorer black neighbors and establish their own city after a contentious legal battle spanning a decade, the Daily Mail reported.
The newly sanctioned city will be known as St. George. It will encompass a 60-square-mile area in the southeastern region of East Baton Rouge Parish and have an anticipated population of 86,000.
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