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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]8:56, you actually think DC is segregated?  Who is afraid of integrating with whom?  Be honest?  [/quote]'

It is a fact that DC is racially segregated. I highly recommend that you look at these maps by race, if you don't believe me:

http://www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?chicagodots

Please don't confuse "is" with "ought." Should DC be as racially segregated as it currently is? No, but it is fact. [/quote]

Segregation is incorrect.  Segregation was historically something imposed by mandate, one had little choice in the matter.

DC's "segregation" on the other hand is a function of choice.   Nobody is "forcing" anyone to live in one neighborhood vs. another.  I would like to live beachfront in Maui, but I can't afford to, so I don't.  That isn't segregation - and thus, neither is DC segregated.  I chose to live in a DC neighborhood that I could afford, period.  Same as anyone else can do.  DC is expensive, everywhere - even in the lower income areas.  There are plenty of communities around with a lower cost of living than DC - I know so, because I moved here from one.[/quote]

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