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CCC Has No Final Solution

Posted on February 5, 2009 at 3:59 pm

P.J. Tobia talks to the leader of the controversial group that has made a bit of news in Nashville recently:

Baum then gives the example of his home county of St. Charles, Missouri. He says that the population of his county and the neighboring St. Louis County are about the same. The difference is that his county has hardly any blacks (the county is “ninety-seven percent white and the rest are Hispanic or Orientals”) and zero murders per year compared with a nearly all black St. Louis with a “murder every other day.”

“What’s the difference between St. Louis and St. Charles County?” Baum asks. “It’s the race.”

“Ok,” I reply. “But maybe isn’t another difference that one county is rich and the other poor? Couldn’t that be a reason for the crime?”

“I’m not a sociologist,” he says. “…We don’t have a solution. We don’t have a final solution to this problem.”

Thank God for that.

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2 Responses to “CCC Has No Final Solution”

  1. February 5th, 2009 4:15 pm

    They aren’t even close to the same, Saint Louis County has about 3 times the population and 3.5 times the population density.

    In 2000, Saint Charles County had 7 homicides, in 2000, Saint Louis had 10.

  2. GoldnI writes
    February 5th, 2009 4:33 pm

    Are we talking about Saint Louis City or Saint Louis County? Because they’re completely different entities, the city isn’t part of the county. It confused the hell out of me when I first moved here, having spent my whole life in Nashville where the city and the county are the same thing.

    They may be trying to muddle the issue by confusing the two. And for the record, St. Charles scares the crap out of me.

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