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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
You just took race completely out of the equation. Did you mean to, or was it unconscious?
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Do you need me to say, explicitly, "To affluent whites, blacks = lower property value"?
This isn't
White Club. I can say it. But did I need to? I mean, it's fucking St. Louis, for Christ's sake.
ETA: To "southern" affluent whites. But also a lot of northern affluent whites (just much less overtly). And a lot of otherwise tolerant ones. You'd be surprised how that surgeon you know who supports gay marriage feels about the non-white neighborhood encroaching on his place.
