History of White Flight in Indianapolis (Gary, Fishers: insurance, crimes, construction)

[mapmd]

Gentrify any area and prices go up.

Get high income, educated, and family oriented people into an area who have decent moral values and you create a stable neighborhood.

People pay attention to what's around them. Educated and hard working people do not put up with crime. The "No snitching" policy which allows crime to fester and decay to set in does not apply to mostly white with some asian and hispanic "New Urbanites" seeking reasonably priced hipster lifestyles removed from the suburbs.

If the lowlife ruffians happen to be priced out of these areas due to rising rents and housing costs....well good riddance to them. Bye. Cya.

[Humboldt1]

Olympia fields is predominately black and affluent. Schools are good but getting worse but incomes are high.

[Dyadic]

Originally Posted by Humboldt1

Olympia fields is predominately black and affluent. Schools are good but getting worse but incomes are high.

Wealthy black communities are centered in NJ, NY, MD, VA, GA and CA. Maryland has about 6 area I can think of off the top of my head. Fort Washington, MD for example has a family per capita income well over $100,000 and it is more affluent and five times as large of Olympia fields.

[wh15395]

Originally Posted by mapmd

Gentrify any area and prices go up.

Get high income, educated, and family oriented people into an area who have decent moral values and you create a stable neighborhood.

People pay attention to what's around them. Educated and hard working people do not put up with crime. The "No snitching" policy which allows crime to fester and decay to set in does not apply to mostly white with some asian and hispanic "New Urbanites" seeking reasonably priced hipster lifestyles removed from the suburbs.

If the lowlife ruffians happen to be priced out of these areas due to rising rents and housing costs....well good riddance to them. Bye. Cya.

White flight had a big part in creating a "Stop Snitching" culture.

[indy_317]

Originally Posted by wh15395

White flight had a big part in creating a "Stop Snitching" culture.

How exactly?

[wh15395]

Originally Posted by indy_317

How exactly?

By white people moving out as soon as a black person moved in on their block. This created exclusively black, and therefore low-income neighborhoods. There was a self-fulfilling prophecy among many people during the "white flight era" that blacks lowered property values in their neighborhoods.

[mapmd]

Originally Posted by wh15395

There was a self-fulfilling prophecy among many people...

Was? Are you sure about that being past tense?

[Dyadic]

Originally Posted by mapmd

Gentrify any area and prices go up.

Get high income, educated, and family oriented people into an area who have decent moral values and you create a stable neighborhood.

People pay attention to what's around them. Educated and hard working people do not put up with crime. The "No snitching" policy which allows crime to fester and decay to set in does not apply to mostly white with some asian and hispanic "New Urbanites" seeking reasonably priced hipster lifestyles removed from the suburbs.

If the lowlife ruffians happen to be priced out of these areas due to rising rents and housing costs....well good riddance to them. Bye. Cya.

Are you saying only Whites have decent moral values and are educated, family oriented people?

[wh15395]

Originally Posted by mapmd

Was? Are you sure about that being past tense?

I'm sure at least as far as the inner-city goes.

[Humboldt1]

Whites are not the only ones in this country with morals or family values and education.

That being said, nearly 80 percent of blacks are born out of wedlock and blacks suffer from lower education and income levels and are many times more likely than other races to be violent criminal offenders.

Historically, as areas have experienced white flight, this has led to increased crime.

Much of the declines of these neighborhoods are not solely attributable to race. Many of these neighborhoods particularly in industrial areas experience job losses and you have people leaving to seek employment in other areas. Ouse leaving are replaced with those with less positive job prospects and the cycle continues until you have once middle class areas become lower working class and then welfare class. Most of the west side and south side of Chicago experienced this fate though some of the areas closer to the loop job center are being reclaimed by gentrification.