So where does Jackson go from here?

[Temple of the Dawg]

Since you're family is from Ft. Worth

I would think you would understand better than most just how wrong your example is. I used the historical perspective to highlight that Ft. Worth is not a suburb of Dallas. I live in Fort Worth and the vast majority of people that I work with live in Fort Worth or one of its many suburbs. There are several major companies located in Fort Worth that employee several thousand employees each. I have lived here for 13 years now and I can count on one hand the number of people that I know that have ever commuted to Dallas at any point in their career. Your example sucks because places like Madison, Pearl, Flowood, etc. exist as they do because of Jackson. If Jackson wasn't there, they would all be sleepy little Mississippi towns because there wouldn't be a population base to drive their growth. Fort Worth became what it is independent of Dallas and is anything but a little brother to Dallas. And no one that is from Fort Worth that I have ever met would even think of claiming Dallas when asked where they are from. As I said, it has only been in the last 30 years or so that the two have meshed due to the explosion of the suburbs located between the two of them. I understand your original point (even though it was weakly made), I was just pointing out the fallacy of your chosen example. As a long time resident of Fort Worth, it rendered your point basically meaningless since your entire premise was flawed by your example.

I guess it doesn't really matter that much, just bothered me for some reason....

It was a vague example of a big city next to a smaller city where people commute to and from, and there is some form of teamwork between the two. If you want to get all specific on dates that the two were founded you're reading way too far into what I said.

My entire family is from Fort Worth, and everyone works in Dallas but lives in FW for the amenities it provides. How is that any different than what I'm saying but on a bigger scale? It's not a suburb but it's a little brother to Dallas. To say otherwise is insane. Ask a person where they're from and they're always going to tell you 9/10 times Dallas.

 

[Machiavelli]

It's fun to get all up in arms about the end of the city as we know it, though. People have been doing it after every single mayoral election save for the time Frank Melton got elected. Remember how awesome he was going to be for the city? Man, he sure shored up the crime problem didn't he?

Jackson needs to fix it's failing infrastructure more than anything else, and that's the bottom line (to steal from Melton). If Lumumba can somehow pull that off, then people are going to forget that he's some radical, kitten eating, baby punting, triple Muslim, gay marrying, black, or whatever your bogey man of choice is.

Fixed it for you.

 

[dawgstudent]

Huh? What does lumumba's race have to do with anything?

 

[lasher8]

Please lock this thread...PLEASE???

Huh? What does lumumba's race have to do with anything?

 

[Machiavelli]

Huh? What does lumumba's race have to do with anything?

My bad. I thought that was what Darealistdawg was talking about.

 

[FormerlyHighLifeRebel]

Comparing an entire city to a small suburb would not be intellectually dishonest? Show me how living in Northeast Jackson increases the probability that you will be a victim of violent crime.

 

[Palos verdes]

The DFW metroplex was born when DFW Intl Airport opened in the early 70's. Until then, you basically had two cities that weren't interconnected in any form or fashion. Each had their own airport and were recognized as two different destinations. Now it's recognized as one regional statistical area and destination, but Ft. Worth, isn't, and never was a suburb of Dallas.

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

A Rebel AND a Democrat?

Please explain how a persons odds of being a victim of violent crime decrease by moving from Northeast Jackson to rural Rankin County.

"Crime" is proxy for something else entirely. A woman's purse gets taken out of her car at the Kroger on I-55, and it's time to get the **** out of Jackson. A person gets kidnapped out of a new mall's parking lot, raped, and murdered, but no one, not no one, thinks that it's time to move out of Rankin county.

What the **** do you know about what I "try" to do to make Jackson better?

Talk about useless.

 

[thatsbaseball]

You are totally full of ****. I just bought a home in Madison recently and two of the occupants in the neighborhood are well known, high profile BLACK democrats that left Jacktown. Very nice people I might add. What`s your comment on them ?