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Is DC and its suburbs segregated?
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Anonymous
The woman that cleans my house is white. She lives in AA county in the middle of nowhere. There are tons of white working class people in Ann Arundel County. I live in PG county and am always stunned by the whiteness in Bethesda. I walked around downtown and saw just one Asian guy in a suit and a few Latinos who were kitchen help. |
Anonymous
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16:23 - BS.
In the D.C. area, there are very few blue collar white people, if any. Sure you can go to Baltimore or somewhere that is NOT the immediate area and find them. Blacks and whites are NOT fond of each other in the D.C. area. It is really obvious to you if you have lived somewhere that is not as segregated. Otherwise, you are in denial. Locals will try to spin this. It is what it is. |
Anonymous
| For God's sake, get your white asses out of Bethesda for once in your life and come to Columbia Heights. It's like a Benetton ad in that neighborhood. And what's all this talk about "cooks, cleaners, and tradespeople"? You all sound like the Junior League in 1956! |
Anonymous
Why do you always think that whoever disagrees with you is a "local"? Guess what? You live here too. I am a white person, not a D.C. local, although I live here now and love it. And while I agree with you that there are far fewer blue collar white people than in many other areas, you most certainly do not speak for me or for the people I know when you say "blacks and whites are not fond of each other." How gross. Speak for yourself. |
Anonymous
| 22:04 - Ahhh...you assume I am in the D.C. area! You really do believe you know it all, huh? |
Anonymous
| If you are not in this area, you should really get off of DCUM and quit insulting "this area" as much as you do. |
Anonymous
I laughed out loud as well when I saw that post! I just took my kids to our pediatrician in Spring Valley and saw very little diversity, if any. I actually felt a little conspicuous (as a minority) getting a latté from Starbucks. |
Anonymous
I'm a new poster and I frankly don't even know which ones are yours. But what the hell are you doing, trying to make a point about DC's makeup to a bunch of locals, if you don't even live here? Maybe you should re-read your own words. |
Anonymous
One in five residents of 20016 identifies as non-white (or, not totally Caucasian). It's a little harder to ascertain the demographics of just the Spring Valley neighborhood, simply by looking at census data. So yes, whiter than the city or the nation as a whole, but not exactly a Klan meeting. And just a reminder folks! "Diverse" to some of us means something in addition to skin tone. It includes country of origin, religion, sexual orientation and so forth. Fifty people from 50 countries are diverse in my book, even if not a one of them is black. |
Anonymous
You don't have to go anywhere near Baltimore to find working class whites. Many surrounding areas of DC have them, but my question to you is how would you know where they worked just by looking at them? My husband is white. When we lived in the city he was making around $30K. If you saw him around the city I'm sure your assumption wouldn't be that he was one of those rare blue collar white people. But that has a lot more to do with you than the reality of the situation. I lived on Richmond Highway many different times in my life. There are quite a few neighborhoods and trailer parks full of those elusive blue collar white people. That's just a few miles outside of the city. And that's only one area. You can go around believing anything you like as long as you realize that it's mostly perception shaping your reality. |
Anonymous
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I actually posted a few weeks ago about how I found that the social interactions between different races in DC was very minimal. Even if a neighborhood is diverse, it doesn't mean that people socialize with each other. I've been to a number of parties in DC where everyone there is either all white or black and even though people may come from the same socioeconomic background blacks and whites here seem to self-segregate socially.
I had a very diverse group of friends in NYC and I find it strange here that people don't seem to have meaningful friendships or social interactions with people outside their race. I certainly don't think it is intentional but just the fact that this is how things seem to be here is disturbing to me. |
Anonymous
I disagree. For me, I get the sense that there is a diverse group of women. You can notice this in particular threads that come up. In the immigration threads, there seems to be input from Hispanic women. And, I've seen many women identify themselves as Asian or AA. |
Anonymous
Are you black? Do you consider this 'diversity'? Sorry, but I don't see any diversity in this at all. Are you trying to teach your DD that she should only trust black professionals? It almost sounds a little racist. Our DD's pedi is black, her teacher is black, our PCP is Asian, our dentist is White, our mechanic is Asian.... etc. I see that as exposing her to more diversity than if I sought out all professionals of just one race. |
Anonymous
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Believe it or not, some of the working class live in even the most posh neighborhoods. Some of those families work very hard to attend our schools. Sure, they don't have big houses, but they are here. Certainly true for Arlington and parts of Falls Church.
Yes, the tradespeople live far, but they also don't rely on public transportation. |
Anonymous
LOL you are ridiculous and I hope you aren't serious. I am not the person you quoted. |