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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think that a lot of people are OK with different cultures/races/etc. as long as such are "like them" in the sense that they value education, have advanced degrees, etc. So they would be with their kids going to a 50% Hispanic school if say, those Hispanics were the children of doctors and lawyers, but certainly would never send their kids to a school comprised of working class, ESOL students.

I know many who claim to be on board with diversity, think Trump is a racist, yet would absolutely never even entertain the idea of living somewhere like South Arlington or PG or Silver Spring.

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This is a good point.[/quote]

If you're trying to suggest that the people calling Trump racist are hypocrites from the comfort of primarily white neighborhoods, then I think you are way off on that one...  [/quote]
I think that poster is pretty spot on.

What exactly is it, then, if the obsessions over FARM rates and ESOL rates and having your kids with a good "peer group" isn't blatant racism/classism? I mean really, saying"I send my kid to XYZ school for the better peer group" or "we moved from [city neighborhood] to [affluent enclave] because it's nicer and the schools are better", sentiments frequently shared on DCUM, is no different than saying "I send my kid to XYZ school because there's fewer brown/poor children that might be a bad influence on mine." It's just more PC.

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Um, suuuure.  Meanwhile I'll note that there are far more white conservatives living in the lily-white suburban enclaves, while being scarce to be found in the primarily minority neighborhoods and schools.  It's mostly young white progressives moving into those more diverse neighborhoods.

You should check and count how much glass is around your own home before presuming to cast that stone at someone else's.[/quote]
Reading comprehension is important. I'm not talking about just lily-white areas, I'm talking about areas that are socioeconomically homogenous. (Which often happen to be racially homogenous as well because race/SES are often linked.)[/quote]

Not sure what point you are driving at.  Socioeconomically homogenous areas are far more likely to harbor bigotry toward anyone who isn't cut from that same socioeconomically homogenous cloth.   Those areas, when whites are involved, tend to lean conservative and support Trump.

Meanwhile the more socioeconomically diverse areas tend to lean liberal, tend to recognize the racism, and are anti-Trump.

You seem to be a quite confused, thinking that it's reversed.[/quote]

It is slightly different than that.  Look at http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/upshot/the-geography-of-trumpism.html.    to quote it

[quote]The places where Trump has done well cut across many of the usual fault lines of American politics — North and South, liberal and conservative, rural and suburban. One element common to a significant share of his supporters is that they have largely missed the generation-long transition of the United States away from manufacturing and into a diverse, information-driven economy deeply intertwined with the rest of the world.[/quote][/quote]

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