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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow!  I can't believe that you're gleefully talking about "exterminating" poor people, Blacks and Hispanics from DC like they are roaches or something.  You are unbelievably cold, heartless and hateful.  Didn't you get the memo?  Jim Crow is over.[/quote]

Couple of things:  first, I'm not calling for the "extermination of Blacks and Hispanics", nor did I think my tone was particularly gleeful.  I was just describing the dynamic that's currently operating, and that will continue to operate to give the District the same demographic profile as the rest of the region.  There's nothing about cities in particular that makes them the natural property of the poor--the situation in the last half of the 20th century was a historical anomaly.  The future of DC will be more like Paris than Detroit.

Secondly, and I'm guessing you were just venting, but a minor historical point:  Jim Crow is usually defined as a "legal segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly 'separate but equal' status for black Americans."  This is different from "the failure to provide bottomless subsidies so that poor folks can have a DC address."

Your equating a marginal down-tick in the total percentage of folks living in DC who are entirely dependent of taxpayer subsidies--and a corresponding marginal up-tick in the same demographic in the suburbs--with Jim Crow is as ridiculous as comparing it to the Holocaust.  Such childish hyperbole doesn't help you make your point, it just detracts from it.[/quote]

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