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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Redlining played a huge part in this.[/quote]

That logic does not make much sense. In 1970, Fairfax was around 95.5% white, and Montgomery County was around 94.5% white. The Black population for MOCO was around 4%. In Fairfax County, the Black population was around 3.5%. Both counties were less than 1% Asian. Redlining or historical demographics are not a significant explanatory factor, given their initial starting populations were very similar 50+ years ago. People tend to congregate and live around other people that are similar to them. This trend becomes self-reinforcing because people moving to a certain area create conditions that support amenities and businesses that cater to specific cultural or ethnic groups. Obviously, it is more appealing for people to live in areas where they have grocery stores that supply the food items they tend to cook with, speak the same language, and have places that know how to cut their hair. This is a completely unavoidable process, and government interventions to reduce this phenomenon will likely fail. In summary, random variation in people from specific racial groups moving to certain places can create residential segregation through the accumulation of culturally specific amenities in a geographic area.[/quote]

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