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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Visit glen echo park and do the junior ranger badge on the civil rights desegregation protests.

Also, Bowie Levittown and other PG communities were filled with white flighters in the 50s to 80s.  Even as the Black population inched up in thr 80s, that included families (and kids don’t vote).  Voters skewed more heavily white as the area transitioned.[/quote]

There is no such place as “Bowie Levittown;” Belair at Bowie didn’t exist in the ‘50’s; the community was hardly “white flight,” unless your definition of that includes moving up from a cramped lower middle class Langley Park apartment to a first new home in a fantastic planned development, coming from a Philadelphia suburb to a new DC job, or relocating to Maryland from all over the place as part of the ever-expanding federal workforce.

You really don’t have a clue. Fortunately there are more knowledgeable people to remedy your ignorance. [/quote]

From WETA:

"By 1963, “Belair at Bowie” was thriving. Since its opening in 1961, over 2,000 of the Maryland development’s homes had been occupied.[1] Every week, real estate agents at the Belair offices sold 35-40 more, with even more streets and neighborhoods planned to meet the steady demand.[2] Churches and schools were being built around the new homes, businesses were moving into the shopping center, and a private bath and tennis club had just opened to residents. Thanks to the growth, Bowie had even become a city, with its own mayor and local government. From the beginning, Belair’s chief creator and salesman, the property developer William Levitt, had envisioned the ideal community: attractive, affordable, spacious, friendly, and convenient. Now, three years after he first came to the Washington area, that community was “a complete one.”[3]

But, evidently, Levitt’s vision of the perfect neighborhood only included one type of neighbor: white."[/quote]

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