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The Ferguson Effect Eight Years Later — In Ferguson Itself

Steve Sailer

10/13/2022

Ferguson, Missouri is a suburb of St. Louis out near the airport. In August 2014, it was nationally proclaimed The Face of America’s Greatest Crisis: Too Much Rule of Law. The Black Lives Matter movement more or less began at Ferguson, followed shortly by the Ferguson Effect.

Judging from video of brawls at the Ferguson Walmart this week, it looks like the Ferguson Effect is still going on in Ferguson.

By the way, Ferguson appears to be entering the depopulation end phase of racial transition, with its population dropping by 1/8th from 2010 to 2020. It had managed to stabilize in population around the turn of the century because it was mostly small single family homes. Although younger whites wouldn’t raise their families there due to the schools, older whites weren’t fleeing because their new black neighbors were low-crime homeowners. But then apartment buildings for Section 8 tenants, such as Michael Brown, were built.

Historical population
Census Pop.
1880 185
1890 750 305.4%
1900 1,015 35.3%
1910 1,658 63.3%
1920 1,874 13.0%
1930 3,798 102.7%
1940 5,724 50.7%
1950 11,573 102.2%
1960 22,149 91.4%
1970 28,759 29.8%
1980 24,740 −14.0%
1990 22,286 −9.9%
2000 22,406 0.5%
2010 21,203 −5.4%
2020 18,527 −12.6%

[Comment at Unz.com]

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