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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you look at housing patterns, pretty much everyone does.  Few admit it, however.[/quote]

Lol. Yes this thread has demonstrated the second part of your statement. "I love and seek out diversity but just happen to live in a 90% white neighborhood!"[/quote]

Yup.  That's where the rubber meets the road for white folks:  say one thing, live another.[/quote]

For everyone, really.  Plenty of AAs prefer to live in predominantly AA communities -- someone earlier mentioned Atlanta.  Same thing with [name your ethnic group].  Human nature.  People generally prefer to be with people like themselves, whether that be based on ethnicity, religion, income, etc.    [/quote]

Exactly. It's hypocritical to pretend this is only true for white people.[/quote]

Except black people don't flee when the white population rises above 8% (the statistic a PP mentioned).  White people seem to have a way lower tolerance than other races for living around "others."[/quote]

Only 8%? I can believe it being like 15-20%, but I have a hard time thinking folks in Vienna, Great Falls, Bethesda, Potomac, etc., are putting the "for sale" signs out when a few Blacks move in but I can believe it happens when you start Section 8ing the place up and the newcomers start acting up. But that'd happen in random stretches of Chantilly, Herndon, Gaithersburg, etc.

I mean it's 2015, shouldn't we at least wait for the fried chicken, watermelon, sagging pants, rap music, purple drank, and other such things to start happening before we start freaking out? [/quote]

Beautiful application of obtuse and obnoxious sweeping generalizations.[/quote]

Thank you. Have the reasons people freak out about Blacks changed in the past few years? I thought I had most of them covered. [/quote]

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