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Originally posted by Adder
Um... these are consequences of Roe and desegregation by busing?? And why would busing be necessary if there had been no white flight?
And yes, I have seen a northern city lately. Philly, New York, Chicago, Minneapolis - all doing pretty damn well. And DC, which isn't a northern city, but certainly experienced all of the phenomina you apparently believe were caused by busing and abortion, is doing much better these days too. But I'm sure that is just 'cause of all of the Repulican politicians these places have elected.
Ad(that's one mighty big conspiracy theory ya got going on there)der
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Chicago? Let's see here. North of Roosevelt and east of Halsted, right?
I'm just talking about bussing for the white flight, and I don't mean to say it was the sole cause. But, ya heard anyone say they're moving to the city for better schools lately? Now how bout the opposite? Bussing was an aggravating factor. And lets see here, did that expensive solve any problems? No. Every report I read says that schools are entirely segregated still. Coincidence no doubt because those people were all gonna move to the 'burbs anyway and the minorities were all gonna stay in the city. Really.
DC is doing much better compared to when? You might not have been here 4 weeks or so ago, but scabbed Texan put on her Rosy Colored glasses and tried saying the same thing about how things were better. I'll give you a short cut to the answer though. Compare to when the problems were "fixed" by Judicial fiat, not to the height of the crack wars. DC is doing better than 5 years ago. Its still a freakin zoo by any standard, particularly when compared on any metric to just before the liberals and activist judges fixed things.
Did you say conspiracy theory? You might want to sit down with your parents and ask them about what's improved in their lifetimes. It ain't gonna be murder, teenage pregnancy, incarceration rates, concentration of poverty, tax rates, abortion rates, divorce rates or desegregation of schools. Yet, my taxes keep going up to pay for the solutions that you think are working.
This is just another one of those reruns I hate watching. You can tell how it ended from my smug tone.
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