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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Yes and no. I've lived for the last 15 years in neighborhoods that were exactly the sort in which white people would segregate themselves in decades past. (Not intentionally, of course. But these places tended to have nice homes and school districts, so the purchases made sense.) But the browning of the country has turned these neighborhoods an array of colors. Asians, Indians, and people of various Middle Eastern descent are statistically almost as common as Whites. There are fewer African Americans than those groups, but in my observation, that number has been steadily and dramatically increasing.
I think it's difficult to turn into one's older bigoted uncle when one is regularly socializing with people of varied backgrounds.
Whites still have some institutional advantages, but the trend is toward a much more varied culture. I don't see whites even remaining a majority in the burbs in coastal areas for too much longer. The defining line I see in the nice suburbs is more economic than racial. The poor of all colors are being priced out, aggressively. There a lot of "lesser suburbs" growing to service those people, as they're being priced out of the cities as well. I've notice a number of these, comprised of developments where lots of homes went into foreclosure in the crisis.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...=.6e76a8351bf1
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.9082b93f6c1e
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown...than-students/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.7285fc094e77
You really should read
White Fragility. This idea that white people create actual friendships with diverse people is, in general, just not true. It may occur early in life, but apparently, those relationships do not last, no matter what your overly-weighted anecdotal evidence tells you.
I don't know what this means: "Whites still have some institutional advantages, but the trend is toward a much more varied culture." But the first part is comical. Whites enjoy deep, entrenched, lasting, meaningful, and self-sustaining advantages.
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