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.

Welp, encourage your white friends to start having kids. The white birth rate has been declining for years here and in Europe as well.

This is the premise of the Handmaid Tale.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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'll just add: White people, if you need a "safe space" to congregate and be surrounded by other white people, you can go to... Congress. You are well protected there. Fear not.

[Anonymous]

I don't get it. Does a town or county or school need white people to succeed? Why does the racial makeup make a town good or a lack of a certain makeup make it bad?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't get it. Does a town or county or school need white people to succeed? Why does the racial makeup make a town good or a lack of a certain makeup make it bad?

It would be great if this wasn't the case, but unfortunately, take a look around (Detroit, Camden, etc.).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't get it. Does a town or county or school need white people to succeed? Why does the racial makeup make a town good or a lack of a certain makeup make it bad?

It would be great if this wasn't the case, but unfortunately, take a look around (Detroit, Camden, etc.).

Because race and socioeconomic status are highly correlated in this country. Unfortunately, lower SES generally means less emphasis on education and higher crime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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!

Same here. The only whites remaining are the elderly owners who bought the homes 40 years ago with young families. Now the public school is 70% FARM and less than 10% white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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!

Same here. The only whites remaining are the elderly owners who bought the homes 40 years ago with young families. Now the public school is 70% FARM and less than 10% white.

....and while houses in other areas have risen over the last few years, these homes continue to depreciate. You can get a 5-bedroom, 4-bath colonial for around $400k, but you'll have to send your kids to private school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't get it. Does a town or county or school need white people to succeed? Why does the racial makeup make a town good or a lack of a certain makeup make it bad?

It would be great if this wasn't the case, but unfortunately, take a look around (Detroit, Camden, etc.).

SF is really Asian and doing fine. Atlanta is pretty black and fine.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't get it. Does a town or county or school need white people to succeed? Why does the racial makeup make a town good or a lack of a certain makeup make it bad?

It would be great if this wasn't the case, but unfortunately, take a look around (Detroit, Camden, etc.).

SF is really Asian and doing fine. Atlanta is pretty black and fine.

Well, Asians value education, so that would explain SF. I can't spall to Atlanta. Maybe blacks there have a higher average education level and/or lower rate of out-of-wedlock births.

But this could be an interesting study. Why do blacks in certain cities fare better than others?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't get it. Does a town or county or school need white people to succeed? Why does the racial makeup make a town good or a lack of a certain makeup make it bad?

It would be great if this wasn't the case, but unfortunately, take a look around (Detroit, Camden, etc.).

SF is really Asian and doing fine. Atlanta is pretty black and fine.

Well, Asians value education, so that would explain SF. I can't spall to Atlanta. Maybe blacks there have a higher average education level and/or lower rate of out-of-wedlock births.

But this could be an interesting study. Why do blacks in certain cities fare better than others?

Are you serious? Yes, weirdo. Black people can differ. Mind blown.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't get it. Does a town or county or school need white people to succeed? Why does the racial makeup make a town good or a lack of a certain makeup make it bad?

It would be great if this wasn't the case, but unfortunately, take a look around (Detroit, Camden, etc.).

SF is really Asian and doing fine. Atlanta is pretty black and fine.

Well, Asians value education, so that would explain SF. I can't spall to Atlanta. Maybe blacks there have a higher average education level and/or lower rate of out-of-wedlock births.

But this could be an interesting study. Why do blacks in certain cities fare better than others?

Here's another interesting study: Why are whites in certain areas OD'ing themselves to death en masse on opioids? What's up, white people? Clean up your act.

[Anonymous]

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.

Idk if it is that simple because of the way we do public schooling here. A lot of young couples who buy in DC plan to move to the suburbs once their kids hit a certain age for school reasons. I think that in the European cities you didn't have people moving into areas with schools that as a whole were not generally as good as those in the suburbs.

I could see this being true for exburbs though as research about the negative effects of long commutes becomes more wide spread. Also some of the areas are actual close suburbs for different cities. Like a lot of areas in Howard county are near Baltimore suburbs and I would imagine some of those places in Virginia are suburbs of a lot of the tech development in the area. The other X factor is the impact a rise in telecommuting has on where people settle down in the future. One of my family members works in tech in the Bay Area and there are a decent number of people she works with that could afford to live there but choose to primarily work remotely from other areas of the country.

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Look at it this way, once an area gets to trashy it is doomed. The places people with money leave DC for to gain schools and space will be ok. The places where the poor people are displaced to and undocumenteds target (like the non-cute parts of Hyattsville, silver spring and Langley Park) will continue to get poorer with degrading school quality. Then the same thing that always happens will happen and the middle class with options will move and cease looking there. The purple line was sort of targeted there to counter act the current trends but now that it is all but dead that might be the final nail for a few years.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't get it. Does a town or county or school need white people to succeed? Why does the racial makeup make a town good or a lack of a certain makeup make it bad?

It would be great if this wasn't the case, but unfortunately, take a look around (Detroit, Camden, etc.).

SF is really Asian and doing fine. Atlanta is pretty black and fine.

Atlanta's boom has cononcided with the boom in it's white population. Like DC just did, ATL will be under 50% black in a year or two and sits about 53% currently after falling from the mid 60s just a few years ago.