We don't need to be a destination for ghetto cruisers and welfare families.
I hate to break it to you...but seeing the reality of Granite City for what it is....
Granite City is getting darker and darker.
I think we need to accept the change in reality and hopefully, unlike in ages past, be able to live with our diversity.
If we keep the mindset Black=Criminal and Hispanic=Illegal we will not go anywhere.
Your posts are always so good, usually, but segregation and a clear division of the haves and have nots has been the cause of some of the negative effects of what has happened in North City and now North County.
We cannot prosper in 2011 with the mindset of 1950.
I'm sorry Catching -- even if I am oblivious and too idealistic, I cannot accept anything that reeks of segregation.