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Boulevardier's avatar

Steve hasn’t mentioned it in a while and it was usually in reference to Oak Park’s illegal but effective racial quota system, but there is essentially a fairly low percentage of black residents a neighborhood can absorb before a rapid decline and demographic shift occurs. Howard Stern’s sorta autobiographical movie Private Parts humorously depicts his Long Island town undergoing that while he was in middle and high school.

Driving through the South Side of Chicago or Detroit is incredibly depressing because the signs of their past glory as vibrant urban neighborhoods are still to be seen amongst the brick and mortar as well has human wreckage there today.

At any rate no one is supposed to openly discuss the lengths people will go to avoid living near large concentrations of blacks, but it’s plain as day when it comes to real estate pricing and which public schools parents of all stripes deem acceptable.

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SamizBOT's avatar

A neighborhood can go from the kind of place a future Pope can grow up in to a warzone and the polite thing to do is never mention why

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