History behind DC area racial differences

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Anonymous wrote:Are you familiar with the Civil War and which state was a member of the confederacy?

NP. This is a bizarre post with bizarre reasoning.

True although recall that Maryland was a slave state.

Yeah but after the war, MD close to DC and NOVA are pretty different I think.

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Okay, well as a 30 year resident but non-native…. I have never heard a plausible explanation for the reason Rockville is the actual Chinatown, but Koreans and Vietnamese immigrants favored Fairfax County. Initially I mean.

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Redlining played a huge part in this.

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Anonymous wrote:Real talk — why is NOVA more white / asian / middle eastern, and Maryland is more black / latino / Jewish? I’m a DC area native and admittedly don’t understand the dynamics behind this, but maybe it’s just ignorance due to my age or family history or whatever. Whats the deal here? It’s definitely noticeable.

Growing up for instance, I went to private school in Upper NW. Literally all of the black kids lived in Silver Spring, Bowie, and a few others. Every single Jewish kid lived in MoCo — their families would never live in NoVa not a single one of them. As for the white kids the majority lived in NoVa (McLean, Alexandria, Arlington), but some lived in Chevy Chase village. Asians and middle eastern kids all lived in NoVa.

Can anyone explain?

Believe it or not, there are a lot of white, asian and middle eastern people in Maryland. There are also a lot of black, Latino and Jewish people in Virginia (though more Jews in DC and MoCo than the VA close in suburbs)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Real talk — why is NOVA more white / asian / middle eastern, and Maryland is more black / latino / Jewish? I’m a DC area native and admittedly don’t understand the dynamics behind this, but maybe it’s just ignorance due to my age or family history or whatever. Whats the deal here? It’s definitely noticeable.

Growing up for instance, I went to private school in Upper NW. Literally all of the black kids lived in Silver Spring, Bowie, and a few others. Every single Jewish kid lived in MoCo — their families would never live in NoVa not a single one of them. As for the white kids the majority lived in NoVa (McLean, Alexandria, Arlington), but some lived in Chevy Chase village. Asians and middle eastern kids all lived in NoVa.

Can anyone explain?

Believe it or not, there are a lot of white, asian and middle eastern people in Maryland. There are also a lot of black, Latino and Jewish people in Virginia (though more Jews in DC and MoCo than the VA close in suburbs)

Thanks genius

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Anonymous wrote:Okay, well as a 30 year resident but non-native…. I have never heard a plausible explanation for the reason Rockville is the actual Chinatown, but Koreans and Vietnamese immigrants favored Fairfax County. Initially I mean.

The location of the Pentagon, Langley and State Department/FSI explains the Vietnamese community, most of which were evacuated South Vietnamese.

Koreans were in both MD and VA but Merrifield had more room for development.

I'm not sure why the Taiwanese community settled in Rockville.

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Jewish community in Rollingwood and Chevy Chase DC was due to the rest of the surrounding area having racial covenants.

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Simply, due to racism

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Anonymous wrote:Redlining played a huge part in this.

That logic does not make much sense. In 1970, Fairfax was around 95.5% white, and Montgomery County was around 94.5% white. The Black population for MOCO was around 4%. In Fairfax County, the Black population was around 3.5%. Both counties were less than 1% Asian. Redlining or historical demographics are not a significant explanatory factor, given their initial starting populations were very similar 50+ years ago. People tend to congregate and live around other people that are similar to them. This trend becomes self-reinforcing because people moving to a certain area create conditions that support amenities and businesses that cater to specific cultural or ethnic groups. Obviously, it is more appealing for people to live in areas where they have grocery stores that supply the food items they tend to cook with, speak the same language, and have places that know how to cut their hair. This is a completely unavoidable process, and government interventions to reduce this phenomenon will likely fail. In summary, random variation in people from specific racial groups moving to certain places can create residential segregation through the accumulation of culturally specific amenities in a geographic area.

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Arlington has a lot of private pool clubs. Turns out that was to avoid "race mixing" in public pools. I was horrified when I found out. We have one a block away. A few years after we moved here, a 90+ year old lifelong resident next door pointed downslope from the pool and said "That's where they burned crosses." Egad.
https://themetropole.blog/2019/02/21/african-american-life-in-arlington-virginia-during-segregation-a-geographers-point-of-view/

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Anonymous wrote:Are you familiar with the Civil War and which state was a member of the confederacy?

Uhh.. PG county schools didn’t desegregate until the 1970s

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Anonymous wrote:Jewish community in Rollingwood and Chevy Chase DC was due to the rest of the surrounding area having racial covenants.

I’d bet most DCUM’s would be shocked to learn are three Jewish cemeteries off Alabama Ave in southeast DC.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you familiar with the Civil War and which state was a member of the confederacy?

Uhh.. PG county schools didn’t desegregate until the 1970s

I went to PG schools in the 70’s and they were absolutely NOT segregated. I would get beat up by my black classmates every couple weeks for being white.

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Anonymous wrote:Are you familiar with the Civil War and which state was a member of the confederacy?

LOL! This is hilarious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Real talk — why is NOVA more white / asian / middle eastern, and Maryland is more black / latino / Jewish? I’m a DC area native and admittedly don’t understand the dynamics behind this, but maybe it’s just ignorance due to my age or family history or whatever. Whats the deal here? It’s definitely noticeable.

Growing up for instance, I went to private school in Upper NW. Literally all of the black kids lived in Silver Spring, Bowie, and a few others. Every single Jewish kid lived in MoCo — their families would never live in NoVa not a single one of them. As for the white kids the majority lived in NoVa (McLean, Alexandria, Arlington), but some lived in Chevy Chase village. Asians and middle eastern kids all lived in NoVa.

Can anyone explain?

Bethesda/Potomac is becoming more East Asian and some South Asians (non Muslims) I’m noticing