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I also think that black people in DC avoided moving to NoVA which they associated with the Confederacy. So many of NoVA's streets, schools, parks, and roads are named after Confederate generals and leaders, and many of NoVA's schoolteachers and principals used to be whites originating from southern VA. When busses or trolleys crossed the 14th Street Bridge southbound, black passengers used to have to stand and give their seats to white passengers. They were also banned from Alexandria's public library.
The ironic thing about this is for my personal experience, I have dealt with a lot less infamous sentiments that are synonymous with the Confederacy in modern-day NoVA than I have in either DC or Maryland.
But about PG County, from what I heard, it has always been a lower-middle class place. Granted the upper-middle income mcmansion communities and bourgeoisie atmosphere are a recent phenomenon, the attitudes are mostly predominantly of a working-class vibe (in good and bad ways).
A vase majority on this forum have no clue re: PG. County!!!!!!! News clippings and the news in general are their source of info.
"I'm a happy, responsible pit bull owner. Ask any other responsible owner and they will give you facts re: this bred. Leave it to the news and this bred make a terrible pet."
Same with PG...outsiders hear about a few bad areas, now the whole county has false respresentation.
Leave it to the guy equating misunderstood pit-bulls to misunderstood PG...
I also think that black people in DC avoided moving to NoVA which they associated with the Confederacy. So many of NoVA's streets, schools, parks, and roads are named after Confederate generals and leaders, and many of NoVA's schoolteachers and principals used to be whites originating from southern VA. When busses or trolleys crossed the 14th Street Bridge southbound, black passengers used to have to stand and give their seats to white passengers. They were also banned from Alexandria's public library.
Also, when the slums of S.W. DC were demolished and replaced by new Federal buildings and condominiums in the 1960s, many slum dwellers were displaced and relocated to PG County.
I can remember when Oxon Hill was filled with brilliant physicists from the Naval Research Lab, and also musicians from the military bands. The man who invented GPS, Roger Easton, lived in Oxon Hill. Doctors and dentists lived there and actually practiced out of offices attached to their homes. They were content to live in simple modest Cape Cod homes and not mega-mansions like today.
So I'm trying to find the common denominator between PG and Fairfax... they both border DC, yet one has a crime rate equal to DC, and the other is relatively safe....
What could be different about these two? I mean.. according to your post, many blacks wouldn't feel comfortable because of the confederate signage around NoVa. Fortunately for the people of NoVa, they must not feel comfortable, if they did, the crime rate would be as bad as PG..
PG.. the most affluent black area in the nation (and I'm assuming the world for that matter), and one of the most dangerous places in the mid atlantic to live... what could cause that high crime rate?
I guess poverty isn't the cause of violent behavior, it must be culture... hmmmm....
Anyways, stay on your side of the river, and we'll stay on ours!
So I'm trying to find the common denominator between PG and Fairfax... they both border DC, yet one has a crime rate equal to DC, and the other is relatively safe....
What could be different about these two? I mean.. according to your post, many blacks wouldn't feel comfortable because of the confederate signage around NoVa. Fortunately for the people of NoVa, they must not feel comfortable, if they did, the crime rate would be as bad as PG..
PG.. the most affluent black area in the nation (and I'm assuming the world for that matter), and one of the most dangerous places in the mid atlantic to live... what could cause that high crime rate?
I guess poverty isn't the cause of violent behavior, it must be culture... hmmmm....
Anyways, stay on your side of the river, and we'll stay on ours!
To be fair, Montgomery County is one of the richest counties in the USA and there are some pretty ****ing dumpy parts in it. That goes to show just how rich a lot of people in MoCo are. Same with PG County I'd reckon... the rich there are *very* rich. And most of the crime happens in the most poverty-stricken parts of PG.
Location: Ft. Washington/Oxon Hill border, MD (Prince George's County)
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So I'm trying to find the common denominator between PG and Fairfax... they both border DC, yet one has a crime rate equal to DC, and the other is relatively safe....
Fairfax does not border DC
Arlington, Alexandria, Montgomery and Prince Georges do
Prince Georges outside the beltway (the majority of the county) has crime rates comparable to the other bordering counties
Location: Far Northeast, D.C. and Montgomery County, MD
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one of the most dangerous places in the mid atlantic to live...
please.
have you been to Baltimore, Philly, Newark, Trenton or Camden recently? PG county doesn't hold a candle to those cities as far as crime rates.
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