Louisiana will form a new city of almost 100,000 people after battle made it to state supreme court

Residents in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, have finally won a legal battle to create a new town called St. George.

“This is the culmination of citizens exercising their constitutional rights. We voted and we won,” attorney Andrew Murrell, one of the leaders of the St. George movement, said in a statement following the Louisiana Supreme Court’s decision.

“Whether you are for or you are against St. George, now is your opportunity, a historic opportunity, to create a city from the beginning, from the ground up,” he said. “It’s your ideas, it’s your policies, it’s your way of life and now you can come together and put those out there and have someone accountable to you.”

“Now we begin the process of delivering on our promises of a better city,” Murrell said. “We welcome both our friends and foes to the table to create St. George.”

The New York Times portrayed critics to the legal establishment of St. George as being concerned over a “wealthy White community trying to distance itself from the Black and poorer residents in Baton Rouge.”

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