Is there modern White flight out of the suburbs happen in DC?
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Anonymous
Fairfax County has twice as many native speakers of foreign languages as DC and many more Spanish speakers specifically. You may just have found a very small white community. It is not true for Ffx county overall. The poster upthread who says Virginia is not diverse is wrong. |
Anonymous
That is certainly true in McLean, where educated professional whites, Asians, Arabs and Indians are all happily enjoying their expensive houses, well groomed parks and great schools. Seriously. |
Anonymous
Reaction to seeing non-whites moving in
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Anonymous
Try telling that to pretty much all the DC suburbs. Good luck because the stats don't bear you out. Anyway, hasn't anyone commented that white people are taking over formerly black neighborhoods in the district itself? |
Anonymous
Check the stats in 5 years. While the panic is very much real it does take some time to pack up and move ya know.
There's a sight difference. The residents of formerly black neighborhoods didn't panic and evacuate. More often than not they were displaced due to eviction, increased rent, housing expenses, or displacement by private action. |
Anonymous
If you had rents raised or evicted, you aren't really a resident, really more of a transient tenant. Owners have a stake in the community, renters are just consumers. |
Anonymous
I'm glad you mentioned that because there's a bit of history there and its called "redlining," a practice of determining which neighborhoods to approve mortgages in and which to deny them. From the 1930s through the 1960s, the FHA explicitly refused to back loans for African American home buyers — subsequently pushing many of them into declining and high-poverty areas. From there, some minorities were victims of predatory lending or they were relegated to renting and pushed out of homeownership entirely. So getting back to your comment about "not really a resident, really more of a transient tenant" — that's bullshit. The predominantly black neighborhoods where people are getting displaced out of their homes had residents who lived there for 40/50 years. Some were owners some were renters but they weren't transients. However, because those black residents were often subjected to higher interest rates AND because higher interest rates make homeownership less affordable because they increase the amount of a borrower’s monthly income devoted to his or her mortgage payment AND because those homeowners did not see the same appreciation rates as homes in white neighborhoods AND because minority homeowners were disproportionately affected by the recession WHICH left many of those black residents owing more for their homes than their homes were worth...they get pushed out. Now, when you couple that whole chain of events in conjunction with all the moves that usually happen prior to the actual displacement of the residents themselves — new owners buying up and closing down shops and business that employed many of the residents in those black neighborhoods thus putting them in the predicament where they can't work and thus can't pay their rent or mortgage — and you can see its a pretty streamlined process of how black people in those neighborhoods are being displaced. It's not pure chance or happenstance. 
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Anonymous
Since when is “the Virginia part” a neighborhood? |
Anonymous
I know, it's the new vogue :"international diversity ", meaning the right kind of people. Wink, wink. |
Anonymous
Interesting comment here folks. It tells us all we need to know about McLean. Nothing else needs to be said. |
Anonymous
| Whether there is or isn't "white flight" won't really matter long term when it comes to DC. The city is way too small to absorb massive amounts of people from VA and MD. We're not talking Chicago or NYC here. DC doesn't have the infrastructure and land mass to take on that kind of density. Plus the way prices are spiking there will always be a majority of white families who simply can't afford to to live in the District. I could see DC becoming 75% white in the next 25 years, losing much of its diversity. But that won't mean the suburbs are emptying out of white families. |
Anonymous
The suburbs aren't emptying out of white people at all. They are filling up with more and more people. Depending on where you live (affluent or not) depends on what type of minorities are moving in. I can only speak to Virginia and 2 homes on my street have tuned over in the last 5 years for 900k+. One home was purchased by an Indian endocrinologist and the other by a white guy with a job up in NYC that he commutes to M-Th. The wife doesn't work and they are gone alot because they also have a crash pad in NYC. Being n actual white person in said community, I've not seen anyone "fleeing" I've seen very old white people move out because they are so damn old, they need assisted living. Half the time the house is bought by an Asian, the other half a white person. |
Anonymous
It's a reflection of reality, not a new vogue. It's a more authentic notion of diversity, unlike DC, where "diversity" is code for AA and a handful of Hispanic. No one would call a crayon box with only three crayons diverse, you know what I mean. |
Anonymous
Yes exactly. Especially if the white crayon insists that the brown and red and yellow crayons assimilate to "fit in" and prohibit them from expressing their individual culturally identifying hues. That's definitely not diversity when everybody's the same just darker versions of white people. |
Anonymous
Way to ruin the perfectly good metaphor PP handed you with your anti-white BS. Do you follow up by calling others race traitors and Oreos as well? |