How did Larry Hogan Sr. become executive of PG County back in the 1980s?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Many Black voters were kept from the polls by police back in the 70’s and 80’s I would imagine.

In PG County in 1978? Not likely. Maryland didn't have full blown Jim Crow.

This isn't Virginia or Alabama.

Tell me you know nothing about the Prince George’s County Police without telling me you know nothing about them.

I absolutely know that the PG County police were thugs. They had a federal consent degree.

But were they preventing blacks from voting? Blocking them at the polls, administering literacy tests, organizing Klan rides to intimidate black voters, etc?

No, duh. Get real. Stop conflating two issues. Blacks were not prevented from voting en mass in the late 70s by the PG County police.

Probably.

Can you prove they weren’t?

No, you can’t.


So it’s certainly a possibility. I’d even call it a likelihood.

Therefore, yes, they were.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many Black voters were kept from the polls by police back in the 70’s and 80’s I would imagine.

In PG County in 1978? Not likely. Maryland didn't have full blown Jim Crow.

This isn't Virginia or Alabama.

Tell me you know nothing about the Prince George’s County Police without telling me you know nothing about them.

I absolutely know that the PG County police were thugs. They had a federal consent degree.

But were they preventing blacks from voting? Blocking them at the polls, administering literacy tests, organizing Klan rides to intimidate black voters, etc?

No, duh. Get real. Stop conflating two issues. Blacks were not prevented from voting en mass in the late 70s by the PG County police.

Probably.

Can you prove they weren’t?

No, you can’t.


So it’s certainly a possibility. I’d even call it a likelihood.

Therefore, yes, they were.

There are definitely stories about this. 1978 was still very Jim Crow-y in southern MD and back then PG county was essentially southern MD.

[Anonymous]

Suburban Hospital in Montgomery County was famously segregated. Most stores in DC adhered to local Jim Crow laws. All the DC-area schools were segregated by law. If you look at 1950s era Montgomery Blair HS yearbooks, you’ll see that the rebel flags were a common site at DC area hs football games. It has taken decades to undo the damage / legacy of the local Jim Crow laws. Prince George’s County held out longer than the other DC suburbs.

[Anonymous]

Visit glen echo park and do the junior ranger badge on the civil rights desegregation protests.

Also, Bowie Levittown and other PG communities were filled with white flighters in the 50s to 80s. Even as the Black population inched up in thr 80s, that included families (and kids don’t vote). Voters skewed more heavily white as the area transitioned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Visit glen echo park and do the junior ranger badge on the civil rights desegregation protests.

Also, Bowie Levittown and other PG communities were filled with white flighters in the 50s to 80s. Even as the Black population inched up in thr 80s, that included families (and kids don’t vote). Voters skewed more heavily white as the area transitioned.

There is no such place as “Bowie Levittown;” Belair at Bowie didn’t exist in the ‘50’s; the community was hardly “white flight,” unless your definition of that includes moving up from a cramped lower middle class Langley Park apartment to a first new home in a fantastic planned development, coming from a Philadelphia suburb to a new DC job, or relocating to Maryland from all over the place as part of the ever-expanding federal workforce.

You really don’t have a clue. Fortunately there are more knowledgeable people to remedy your ignorance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Visit glen echo park and do the junior ranger badge on the civil rights desegregation protests.

Also, Bowie Levittown and other PG communities were filled with white flighters in the 50s to 80s. Even as the Black population inched up in thr 80s, that included families (and kids don’t vote). Voters skewed more heavily white as the area transitioned.

There is no such place as “Bowie Levittown;” Belair at Bowie didn’t exist in the ‘50’s; the community was hardly “white flight,” unless your definition of that includes moving up from a cramped lower middle class Langley Park apartment to a first new home in a fantastic planned development, coming from a Philadelphia suburb to a new DC job, or relocating to Maryland from all over the place as part of the ever-expanding federal workforce.

You really don’t have a clue. Fortunately there are more knowledgeable people to remedy your ignorance.

From WETA:

"By 1963, “Belair at Bowie” was thriving. Since its opening in 1961, over 2,000 of the Maryland development’s homes had been occupied.[1] Every week, real estate agents at the Belair offices sold 35-40 more, with even more streets and neighborhoods planned to meet the steady demand.[2] Churches and schools were being built around the new homes, businesses were moving into the shopping center, and a private bath and tennis club had just opened to residents. Thanks to the growth, Bowie had even become a city, with its own mayor and local government. From the beginning, Belair’s chief creator and salesman, the property developer William Levitt, had envisioned the ideal community: attractive, affordable, spacious, friendly, and convenient. Now, three years after he first came to the Washington area, that community was “a complete one.”[3]

But, evidently, Levitt’s vision of the perfect neighborhood only included one type of neighbor: white."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Visit glen echo park and do the junior ranger badge on the civil rights desegregation protests.

Also, Bowie Levittown and other PG communities were filled with white flighters in the 50s to 80s. Even as the Black population inched up in thr 80s, that included families (and kids don’t vote). Voters skewed more heavily white as the area transitioned.

There is no such place as “Bowie Levittown;” Belair at Bowie didn’t exist in the ‘50’s; the community was hardly “white flight,” unless your definition of that includes moving up from a cramped lower middle class Langley Park apartment to a first new home in a fantastic planned development, coming from a Philadelphia suburb to a new DC job, or relocating to Maryland from all over the place as part of the ever-expanding federal workforce.

You really don’t have a clue. Fortunately there are more knowledgeable people to remedy your ignorance.

From WETA:

"By 1963, “Belair at Bowie” was thriving. Since its opening in 1961, over 2,000 of the Maryland development’s homes had been occupied.[1] Every week, real estate agents at the Belair offices sold 35-40 more, with even more streets and neighborhoods planned to meet the steady demand.[2] Churches and schools were being built around the new homes, businesses were moving into the shopping center, and a private bath and tennis club had just opened to residents. Thanks to the growth, Bowie had even become a city, with its own mayor and local government. From the beginning, Belair’s chief creator and salesman, the property developer William Levitt, had envisioned the ideal community: attractive, affordable, spacious, friendly, and convenient. Now, three years after he first came to the Washington area, that community was “a complete one.”[3]

But, evidently, Levitt’s vision of the perfect neighborhood only included one type of neighbor: white."

Old news. Levity’s racist policies didn’t make the community a “white flight” destination. Indeed, while people demonstrated alongside blacks people in protest of the policies.

[Anonymous]

I’m not sure about Bowie. But “white flight” actually happened in the late 1950s after Washington, DC’s public schools integrated following Brown v Board. A Washington Post article from about 10 years ago wrote about the white flight from the Bloomingdale neighborhood to developing Hyattsville in the context of newly integrated McKinley HS and nearby schools. The all white McKinley HS Alumni Association was debating on whether or not to allow African American membership at the time (about 10 years ago).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Could a Republican pull it off today? The Black vote for Republicans increased for Trump.

No. The white voters in PG are mostly very liberal.