St. Louis

St. Louis is a city in the state of Missouri and the only independent city in that state. Its estimated population as of 2006 was about 347,000. It sits on the western bank of the Mississippi River, and is famous for its Gateway Arch, which serves as a monument to American expansion westward. The city also hosted the 1904 World's Fair, where the ice cream cone was first introduced to the world.

Near St. Louis was a good location to view the total eclipse of the sun on August 21, 2017. St. Louis was also the birthplace of Phyllis Schlafly and where she established her Phyllis Schlafly Center.

Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis has decayed into a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded-up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City has become one of the most depopulated, deindustrialized, and segregated examples of American urban decay. The city's decay stems from multiple causes, ranging from private real estate zoning restrictions, poor local planning and zoning decisions, and Nanny state federal housing policies that led to a "white flight" of middle classes from the central city. A generation of liberal "urban renewal," aimed at eradicating blight, made it worse. The city's notorious high rise public housing units were finally dynamited.

2020 Leftist uprising

Retired St. Louis Police Captain David Dorn was murdered by socialist revolutionaries during the Marxist uprising.

See also: 2020 Antifa riots

Progressive rioters murdered 77 year old retired Black Police Captain David Dorn working as a private security guard. The shooting and theft was posted on Facebook live. Dorn served on the St. Louis police force for 38 years. Dorn’ s personality was described as “bigger than life...a fun guy, a happy guy....He wanted them to do the right thing all the time." The Ethical Society of Police, which represents black officers in St. Louis, said in a news release that Dorn was “the type of brother that would’ve given his life to save them if he had to.”

Soros funded St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, the city’s prosecutor, said she would investigate a white couple for having the audacity to protect their home from the Marxist Black Lives Matter organization which tore down a gate and stormed their property. Gardner issued a search warrant to confiscate the firearms the couple used to defend themselves.

Further reading

• Gordon, Colin. Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City (2009), 304pp

See also

• William Edenborn
• Ferguson, Missouri
• Sarah Breedlove Walker
• Washington University in St. Louis
• St. Louis Cardinals