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WashPost has this interesting story today about how DC may be ceasing to be a majority black city, but still hanging on to its black identity through the arts--much as the Irish still have an outsize influence on Boston's identity even though Boston is not really Irish really anymore. Or much as people still think of New York as a Jewish city although the Jewish influence is waning while the Hispanic is growing.
My neighborhood still has a very large black population. I see this as a revitalization of the city. Non-blacks and affluent blacks are moving into the city in record numbers, diluting the historical population base. The most encouraging thing is that the city is now integrating on a block by block basis. 30 years ago west of Rock Creek Park was white and east of the park was black. Now it's become more diverse.
My neighborhood still has a very large black population. I see this as a revitalization of the city. Non-blacks and affluent blacks are moving into the city in record numbers, diluting the historical population base. The most encouraging thing is that the city is now integrating on a block by block basis. 30 years ago west of Rock Creek Park was white and east of the park was black. Now it's become more diverse.
Eventually D.C. will be 70% white (non hispanic) and all the black people will be in PG county, Montgomery county, and Charles county. Seems sad to me....
DC has by far the worst gentrification out here. We have a height limit so places like Dupont and Logan circles get spaced out quick. We can't build up so the city is building out horizontally and pushing out middle class, low income, and the poor.
Eventually D.C. will be 70% white (non hispanic) and all the black people will be in PG county, Montgomery county, and Charles county. Seems sad to me....
DC has by far the worst gentrification out here. We have a height limit so places like Dupont and Logan circles get spaced out quick. We can't build up so the city is building out horizontally and pushing out middle class, low income, and the poor.
D.C. is gonna suck in 10 years.
In other words DC will have less crime, increasing tax revenue, and better schools.
Why are people in this city so obsessed with race?
Why are some people so obssessed with ignoring it?
I mean really, a city's ethinicity(ies) will give it a flavor, a culture, a style, which is all this article was saying I think. Jews have given theirs to NYC, Mexicans to LA, the Irish to Boston, the Cubans to Miami, etc etc etc. When the dominant ethnicity changes, the city will lose something. But what will it gain? I mean will DC just turn into a haven for bland white-bread ivy league lawyers and corporate lobbyists? Will there be another dominat ethnic group to flavor DC? I mean will the city's culture be? That's all the article was asking and what I was curious to see what folks in DC felt about it.
Eventually D.C. will be 70% white (non hispanic) and all the black people will be in PG county, Montgomery county, and Charles county. Seems sad to me....
DC has by far the worst gentrification out here. We have a height limit so places like Dupont and Logan circles get spaced out quick. We can't build up so the city is building out horizontally and pushing out middle class, low income, and the poor.
D.C. is gonna suck in 10 years.
LOL the sky is not falling and DC will not be 70% white in anybody here's lifetime. Change is endemic and neither good nor bad. For every middle class family forced to a suburb, you have 2-3 middle class families that just won the home ownership sweepstakes, selling a house for which they paid $60 thousand for $500 thousand.
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