Re: CHAT: East St. Louis (was Re: Re: CHAT: geographical nomenclature [was Re: Language of Tetril])

Quoting Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...>:

> On 16 Dec, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
>
> > Yes, yes.  But would the German likely know that? Probably not.
> > (On the other hand, he might:  E. St. Louis' complete destitution
> > could plausibly get headlines in the more anti-American segments of
> > the European media.)
>
> It's _completely destitute_?!
> My visit did take place some 20 years ago,
> and I know that things change. But that bad? What happened?
Well, it was one of the star attractions (if you can call it that)
of Bill Clinton's tour of the nation's poorest places.  Supposedly,
it rivals San Antonio's Corales (sp?), a ghetto of nearly Aghani
levels of poverty created by the local elite because it had too
many unsightly brown people living there.

(Needless to say, their opinions, not mine.)

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