DC is 60% black!?

[Virginian87]

Washington, DC is geographically restricted, so most of the actual "city" is in Maryland and Virginia.  Only the inner city is DC proper.  If you took inner city Philadelphia, Chicago, or Detroit, and made them their own cities, they would also be predominantly black.

Good point. Going slightly off topic I noticed this the other day

The really sad thing is, back in 1998 I visited some former neighbors in central PG county (the county due east of DC), who complained how the neighborhood was "going downhill with all of the blacks moving in."  I wanted smack them upside the head.  Amazing that those sort of attitudes still persist.

They link the increase in gang violence and crime in Prince George's County over the last couple of years to the increase in black families.  Kind of a bad generalization though.

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

Washington, DC is geographically restricted, so most of the actual "city" is in Maryland and Virginia.  Only the inner city is DC proper.  If you took inner city Philadelphia, Chicago, or Detroit, and made them their own cities, they would also be predominantly black.

Good point. Going slightly off topic I noticed this the other day

Just for fun, compare and contrast to where I live now

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Just for fun, compare and contrast to where I live now

Quite a contrast
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[minionofmidas]

Washington, DC is geographically restricted, so most of the actual "city" is in Maryland and Virginia.  Only the inner city is DC proper.  If you took inner city Philadelphia, Chicago, or Detroit, and made them their own cities, they would also be predominantly black.

Good point. Going slightly off topic I noticed this the other day

This is news?

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Just for fun, compare and contrast to where I live now

Quite a contrast
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Al, check my town out.

If you look on the left center of the map and see a street that says W. Nosleda.. I live about where the "W" is on that map.

[minionofmidas]

Just for fun, compare and contrast to where I live now

Quite a contrast
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Al, check my town out.

If you look on the left center of the map and see a street that says W. Nosleda.. I live about where the "W" is on that map.

Not far from the hood I see... Good for you.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

This is news?

It isn't... I just think it's odd that there's such a clear division as if someone had drawn a line from one corner to the other.

[??????????]

Just for fun, compare and contrast to where I live now

Quite a contrast
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Al, check my town out.

If you look on the left center of the map and see a street that says W. Nosleda.. I live about where the "W" is on that map.

Not far from the hood I see... Good for you.

Well their are a lot of physical boundaries between my side of town and black town. Mainly a set of railroad tracks, a chemical plant and a fresh produce complex.

[Virginian87]

Just for fun, compare and contrast to where I live now

Quite a contrast
Be careful; that site is addictive...

Al, check my town out.

If you look on the left center of the map and see a street that says W. Nosleda.. I live about where the "W" is on that map.

Not far from the hood I see... Good for you.

Well their are a lot of physical boundaries between my side of town and black town. Mainly a set of railroad tracks, a chemical plant and a fresh produce complex.

It truly is "the wrong side of the tracks."

[??????????]

Just for fun, compare and contrast to where I live now

Quite a contrast
Be careful; that site is addictive...

Al, check my town out.

If you look on the left center of the map and see a street that says W. Nosleda.. I live about where the "W" is on that map.

Not far from the hood I see... Good for you.

Well their are a lot of physical boundaries between my side of town and black town. Mainly a set of railroad tracks, a chemical plant and a fresh produce complex.

It truly is "the wrong side of the tracks."

Not really to be honest. The neighborhoods over there are mostly keep in good shape and the community has strong ties to keep things good. Crime is actually rather low there and you find the higher crime rates in the Mexican neighborhoods around here.