This is what happens to your businesses, net worth, and your tax base when Al Sharpton and the Civil Rights Movement comes to town:

“The average selling price of a home in the city has been on a steady decline since the shooting of Brown last August, according to housing data compiled from MARIS, an information and statistics service for real estate agents. Prior to Brown’s death, the average home sold in 2014 was selling for $66,764. For the last three and a half months of the year, the average home sold for $36,168, a 46 percent decrease. The trend has continued on through this year, with the average home selling for only $22,951 so far in 2015. Another negative indicator: in the eight and a half months leading up to Brown’s death, the average residential square foot in 2014 was selling for $45.82. In the eight and a half months since Brown’s passing, the average residential square foot in the city has sold for $24.11. That’s about a 47 percent downtick in one of real estate’s core indicators. …”

Ferguson is well on its way to becoming another blighted wasteland like Selma. No one wants to live there or do business there anymore. The same is true of the towns of the Mississippi Delta for the same reasons.