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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCC is not diverse, if that matters to you. [/quote]

It does. I will definitely look more at that. I assume that includes the schools (i.e. they don't draw from nearby communities?)[/quote]

Correct - many years ago the then-town of Falls Church (which is now Falls Church City) redrew its borders to exclude the town's Black neighborhood to disenfranchise the Black residents and keep them from voting in local elections.  The area that was carved out is now part of Fairfax County, rather than Falls Church City, and is heavily Hispanic today.  The kids there go to Falls Church High (which is part of the Fairfax County schools) rather than to Meridian High (which is the Falls Church City high school).  [/quote]

OP in every thread about FCC this poster, or someone else I guess, always posts this information about FC from more than 60 years ago as if Arlington and Fairfax and other nearby areas of NoVa weren't also segregated and in no hurry to integrate.  Falls Church City has been a progressive city full of highly educated people for many decades now and the schools are currently 65% white and 35% minority.  That's not as diverse as many other schools but they are hardly trying to keep the city or the schools segregated, that's just ignorant and incorrect.[/quote]

Diversity is not the same when everyone is rich.[/quote]

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