They keep saying that it has to do with money.
It might well, but the money problems have roots in a long string of black hate crimes and racism against whites in Cairo, in the 1970s. In other words, Cairo was mugabeized. Cairo was once thought of as a potential competitor to St. Louis, as it is right at the junction of two major rivers. And it was fairly prosperous until the 1970s. During the “Great Migration” of blacks out of Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana between the World Wars, most went to Chicago but some settled for St. Louis or East St. Louis, Cairo was a fairly attractive destination for some of the “migrators” because it was both in the river delta, physiographically like the places they left, but it was also in the welfare generous state of Illinois. In other words, they got Chicago’s welfare and Mississippi’s climate, what they thought was the best of both worlds.
