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[quote=Anonymous]Arlington has done a very good job of ridding itself of lower income, high need AA families and Hispanic families through economic discrimination.   Arlington needs the tax base to support the now-majority white schools throughout the County.  One only needs to look at the Buckingham apartment complex (general boundaries Pershing Drive between Glebe and George Mason and north to Henderson Rd.) to see how Arlington has encouraged development of more upscale housing.   You will not find much racial diversity in Arlington's schools -- even Glebe -- which a PP poster pointed out actually has a low AA population.  The Halls Hill/Highview Park neighborhood which feeds into Glebe is an historically AA neighborhood started as a Freedman's Village.  Houses had stayed in the same families for years.  However, as AA became more affluent, younger family members wanted nicer houses and started to sell family properties to builders.  There are also a few AAs in the community who are buying houses and tearing them down for new houses.  Relative to other housing prices in North Arlington, new houses in Halls Hill are inexpensive.  In Hall Hill you now have mostly an aging population with few children in Glebe and a growing Hispanic population renting the older apartments.  Sorry for going on, but I find what Arlington has done with housing fascinating![/quote]

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