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[quote=Anonymous]Not very eloquently but legitimately I think, OP wants to raise the point that in looking at high schools in DC's public school system (universities too btw), we see a system still segregated along racial lines and to some extent income. Historians, sociologists, and maybe anthropologists would be better positioned to explain the causes of this map but I think most agree that the consequences aren't desirable. 
What I'd like to propose as a tidbit of a hypothesis for this discussion - especially on the backdrop that today's news reported that there are, for the first time in US history, less than 50% white babies among us - is that what has driven these self-selections in the past is about to be shaken up dramatically over the next 10 years or so, maybe most dramatically in the DC landscape. DC's elementary schools are a testimony to that. They look more diverse in every way than they ever used to, the Latino and Asian population often acting as a "mixer". I believe that diversity is sought increasingly by most white as well as black urban dwellers but it takes time to gel and time for everybody to realize and capitalize on its benefits, all the while vocalizing and discussing them rather than keeping them under wraps and a taboo not to be mentioned.[/quote]

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