re: #24 ProBosniaLiberal

To be fair, considering what I have heard of Lubbock, could you tell the difference?

The wrecked downtown area never really recovered. Instead of re-building, the local developers used the insurance windfall to push the city to the south and west, a trend that continues to this day. Lubbock’s east-west streets are numbered from north to south. Downtown was between 4th and 19th streets. In 1970, 66th street was pretty much the southern boundary. Today, development has reached 126th street, with similar growth on the west side, while the population has increased just 40%. This means that the huge southern sprawl (disgusting to the aesthetically sensitive) is mostly replacement construction. This has set in motion the kind of center-outward rot that characterizes failed cities all over the world. Btw, blacks and Hispanics are concentrated on the northeast side. Go figure.