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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yuck.
We were thinking of moving to Va for the schools, but I think I'd rather stay in DC now.[/quote]

Arlington Tops Clinton Vote Margin List — [b]Arlington County, which has the highest percentage of residents with a college degree of any jurisdiction in the U.S. with a population over 50,000, also had the highest increase in vote margin for Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama in 2012. Clinton’s margin of victory in Arlington this year was 20.3 points higher than Obama’s.[/b]

Alexandria (also in NoVa) was # 2 on the list.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/education-not-income-predicted-who-would-vote-for-trump/?ex_cid=story-twitter[/quote]

And yet, we are totally fine with economically segregated schools and neighborhoods. Because WALKABILITY. That is the yuck. Not that one idiot yelled or didn't yell a racial slur. The "yuck" is that we are casually accepting the legacy of de jure segregation, racist housing policy, and exclusionary zoning because we (allegedly) don't want our kids to be forced to use school buses or public transportation. For heavens sake, there are threads here and on ArlNow where people are arguing to prevent playing fields from being lit and property that is ALREADY zoned light industrial from being redeveloped to a use that is consistent with light-industrial zoning because of the "seedy" element that may be inconsistent with their "neighborhood character." Can you hear the dog whistle? I can.[/quote]

You are unhinged![/quote]

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