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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Blah blah blah. For some people everything is about racism. Whatever.

Baltimore has public pools. City has been dominated by black politicians and leaders since the 70s. But doesn't prevent the city from keeping pools closed. Let's still blame it on racism. [/quote]

No one is talking about Baltimore except for you.  We’re mostly talking about Virginia.  You know, the state where the Confederacy had its Capitol?  Come on.  When I moved here from a different part of the country the whole private pool club thing was new to me!  We had community pools and beaches.  We also had a lot of gated communities with their own pools.  Never really thought about it until moving here and learning about all of the public pools that closed in the south after legal segregation ended.[/quote]

Most of NOVA didn’t even exist during segregation.

That said there wasn’t a large black community within 30 miles of where I grew up and there were never any public pools, let alone private pool clubs.[/quote]

Sort of.  Quite a lot of NoVa existed during segregation — albeit in a different form.  The NoVa that developed  in the 70’s and beyond was in direct response to desegregation in DC which changed the MD suburbs and significantly changed the VA suburbs.  White flight built up the Virginia suburbs, and many facilities were developed to accommodate that.

The private pools and swimming clubs in NoVa and MD were a direct response to that — even as places like Columbia were being created with ideals and facilities that were designed to support more integrated communities.

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