Is there modern White flight out of the suburbs happen in DC?

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Anonymous wrote:I am in Moco and without naming the specific area have seen white flight I am relatively new to the area but was looking at the demographic for our local school. I dont remember the exact numbers but in the 90's there were approx 60% white kids and the rest were other races, It has gradually switched over and is now only about 8% white.
So either the white people are moving or they are all sending their kids private which I find hard to believe. Makes me sad.

I think we may live in the same area! It is sad. There seem to be plenty of white people in my neighborhood but many of them are elderly and if they are young enough to have kids, send their kids to private schools. Mine will be going to public though!

Why is it sad? Seriously. White people are not endangered. It cracks me up to hear white people lamenting this given their historic lack of empathy for, say, Native Americans who they almost completely wiped out. There are plenty of y'all. Calm down.

I am the original PP, It is sad that white people dont want to send their kids to school because there are more black kids. That to me is sad.

Depends on the black kids and their parents attitude toward education. I tutor at an Alexandria school that is predominantly black. The black kids who do well are from Ethiopia and Eritrea and they have two patent households who care about kids showing up on time and doing school work.
The kids I tutor have a mother at best but mostly grannies, aunties, or a young adult sibling. They do not have time or energy to do more than house and feed the child. The teachers are disinterested, too. I help 4th graders with work my children did in kindergarten.

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Anonymous wrote:"The system may be uneequal, but so is the competion." Great way to put it. Can I share it with my kids - could alleviate some stress. BTW good thing some readers don't understand it.

Underestimate the competition at your own peril. I'm a black lawyer. I got a 174 on my LSAT and had a 3.95 GPA. If you come at me thinking I'm some underqualified token, you're going to get your ass handed to you.

are you black or biracial identifying as black?

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Anonymous wrote:there are no white places in DC area. I moved to DC area last year. My kids old HS had around 1,000 kids so pretty large. My daughters graduating class has one chinese kids, one indian kid, and 2-3 black kids and a handfull of spanish kids. It was around 98 percent white.

In the DC area even schools like VA and MD in top tier schools are not that white all all mainly Asian.

Strong SAT scores and very high ratings are a predictor your schools will eventually suck. It draws in an undesirable population eventual and it sinks.

What exactly is an undesirable population?

In this area it is Koreans who have ruined Woodson.

Ruined how?

Why bother asking a flagrant racist this question?

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Anonymous wrote:"The system may be uneequal, but so is the competion." Great way to put it. Can I share it with my kids - could alleviate some stress. BTW good thing some readers don't understand it.

Underestimate the competition at your own peril. I'm a black lawyer. I got a 174 on my LSAT and had a 3.95 GPA. If you come at me thinking I'm some underqualified token, you're going to get your ass handed to you.

are you black or biracial identifying as black?

What a bizarre question.
I am not the PP, but also a black lawyer with similar stats. And yes, I am black, not biracial identifying as black. Why would you ask that question?

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Anonymous wrote:"The system may be uneequal, but so is the competion." Great way to put it. Can I share it with my kids - could alleviate some stress. BTW good thing some readers don't understand it.

Underestimate the competition at your own peril. I'm a black lawyer. I got a 174 on my LSAT and had a 3.95 GPA. If you come at me thinking I'm some underqualified token, you're going to get your ass handed to you.

are you black or biracial identifying as black?

Lol as if a "full black" cant be successful.

Im not the PP, but I am full black and my parents and a grandmother are college/grad school educated. One parent also grew up poor. I grew up in an upper middle class household, parents valued education, and people in my immediate and extended family are engineers, scientists, dentists, teachers, education administrators, doctors, lawyers (multiple), professors, a VP of a large publisher, etc. Everyone in my immediate and extended family went to college and about 80% went to grad school. My husband and I are also doing quite well. Forgot to add... we grew up in PG county.

Its crazy that throughout this thread its assumed that black people dont value education even if they're poor or that they had to overcome all of these obstacles to become successful. Obviously there are things minorities have to go through such as the stereotypes in this thread or being poor/assumed poor while on the road to success. Nonetheless education is definitely valued in the black community, esp when its used to pull someone else up.

People can be so ignorant.

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My neighborhood in Ashburn has a TON of minorities. I love it and am white. These families elevate the schools, have good jobs, are educated and value education, pay their taxes, and have a high expectation for behavior and conduct out of their kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Look to major European cities as a model of what will happen here. The wealthier, the closer in you live. The poorer, the further out, until you get to the country estates. I would look at places like Prince William County, Loudoun County, Frederick and Howard Counties as places where that sort of turnover will take place. Meanwhile, DC, Hyattsville, Silver Spring, Arlington etc will prosper.

Likely areas adjacent to mass transit like Metro and Purlple Line will continue to do well.

Doubtful in Loudoun County. You clearly are ingnorant of business development and jobs. So many high paying high tech jobs along the Dulles corridor. This is driving prices up, incomes up and condensing the poor into smaller and smaller areas. Amazon just closed a deal for even more office space doubling their operations. I could go on and on and on about all the growth along the tech corridor. My DH is in commercial real estate and based on what he has seen happening, we've purchased 1 investmwnt property a year in Loudoun (have 5 total) and they are all rented to high income professional singles and young families.

The poorer people who service the affluent in Loudoun Co live in Fairfax Co and Prince William Counties with access to Loudoun via Rt 28
Herndon and Sterling have large poor, mostly Hispanic, populations. On the Rt 395 side, Woodbridge, Manassas Cuty and Park and Dumfries are trending poor and Hispanic

Yeah, that's not logical. First, getting from Woodbridge to say Ashburn can take two hours each way during rush. Want to go from Mananass? Yeah, about an hour each way.

Working class people do, in fact, live in Loudoun county. They live around the Sterling area, fwiw. Some of them live further out in the county. I would guess a few live in Herndon, but Herndon is actually getting gentrified and too expensive because of the silver line (see Reston five years ago).

There are definitely working class people in places like Dale City and Garrisonville. But these people are working in Alexandria or along the 95-495 corridor up to DC.

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We are white and want our kids growing up in a diverse neighborhood. Kids that are unfamiliar, awkward, or hostile with diversity will be at a disadvantage. America's future population will be diverse whether you like it or not.

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New PP who just read this thread...

The blatant racist who has been posting also said that they just moved to the area in the last year or so. I wonder if our current President had anything to do with that?

I live in D.C. and would have never thought I would see a confederate flag (which were common in my small town back home), but nevertheless there is a truck parked outside my house regularly with one.

I fear folks like these moving into my neighborhood more than any other.

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Anonymous wrote:New PP who just read this thread...

The blatant racist who has been posting also said that they just moved to the area in the last year or so. I wonder if our current President had anything to do with that?

I live in D.C. and would have never thought I would see a confederate flag (which were common in my small town back home), but nevertheless there is a truck parked outside my house regularly with one.

I fear folks like these moving into my neighborhood more than any other.

I live in NW DC and have never seen one here. What neighborhood or area is this??

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"The system may be uneequal, but so is the competion." Great way to put it. Can I share it with my kids - could alleviate some stress. BTW good thing some readers don't understand it.

Underestimate the competition at your own peril. I'm a black lawyer. I got a 174 on my LSAT and had a 3.95 GPA. If you come at me thinking I'm some underqualified token, you're going to get your ass handed to you.

are you black or biracial identifying as black?

Lol as if a "full black" cant be successful.

Im not the PP, but I am full black and my parents and a grandmother are college/grad school educated. One parent also grew up poor. I grew up in an upper middle class household, parents valued education, and people in my immediate and extended family are engineers, scientists, dentists, teachers, education administrators, doctors, lawyers (multiple), professors, a VP of a large publisher, etc. Everyone in my immediate and extended family went to college and about 80% went to grad school. My husband and I are also doing quite well. Forgot to add... we grew up in PG county.

Its crazy that throughout this thread its assumed that black people dont value education even if they're poor or that they had to overcome all of these obstacles to become successful. Obviously there are things minorities have to go through such as the stereotypes in this thread or being poor/assumed poor while on the road to success. Nonetheless education is definitely valued in the black community, esp when its used to pull someone else up.

People can be so ignorant.

I posted recently on another thread and mentioned that I was black and that I liked our diverse DC neighborhood--someone asked me the same question, i.e., was I biracial. So odd and creepy.

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We are white and want our kids growing up in a diverse neighborhood. Kids that are unfamiliar, awkward, or hostile with diversity will be at a disadvantage. America's future population will be diverse whether you like it or not.

Say it louder for the folks in the back! I'm glad someone gets it.

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We are white and want our kids growing up in a diverse neighborhood. Kids that are unfamiliar, awkward, or hostile with diversity will be at a disadvantage. America's future population will be diverse whether you like it or not.

Say it louder for the folks in the back! I'm glad someone gets it.

That is more true for ethnic diversity if anything. SES-wise, society is becoming more and more segregated, and people with similar aspirations, values and standards will cling together regardless of their color. See McLean for Exhibit 1.

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We are white and want our kids growing up in a diverse neighborhood. Kids that are unfamiliar, awkward, or hostile with diversity will be at a disadvantage. America's future population will be diverse whether you like it or not.

Say it louder for the folks in the back! I'm glad someone gets it.

That is more true for ethnic diversity if anything. SES-wise, society is becoming more and more segregated, and people with similar aspirations, values and standards will cling together regardless of their color. See McLean for Exhibit 1.

I'm white and I 100% agree and am unashamed to live in such a neighborhood. Our neighborhood is full of successful Asians, Hispanics and Blacks (less so than Asians). White people as a whole are a minority. I have no desire to live in a SES diverse community. No desire to deal with the social problems and resulting bad choices that get people in trouble and no desire for those people to be my kids peers. My kids are likely to go to college, are likely to have professional careers and people from like cloth will be their peers as well. No need to muddy the waters.

Flame away. #noapologies

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"The system may be uneequal, but so is the competion." Great way to put it. Can I share it with my kids - could alleviate some stress. BTW good thing some readers don't understand it.

Underestimate the competition at your own peril. I'm a black lawyer. I got a 174 on my LSAT and had a 3.95 GPA. If you come at me thinking I'm some underqualified token, you're going to get your ass handed to you.

are you black or biracial identifying as black?

What a bizarre question.
I am not the PP, but also a black lawyer with similar stats. And yes, I am black, not biracial identifying as black. Why would you ask that question?

Because he said he had high text scores and GPA