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Given the recent heat way, I found this article shocking. The DMV seems a prime example of this trend.

"Yet just as public pools become more important than ever, they’re disappearing from sight.Pools have become harder to find for Americans who lack a pool in their backyard, can’t afford a country club, or don’t have a local YMCA. A legacy of segregation, the privatization of pools, and starved public recreation budgets have led to the decline of public places to swim in many cities.“If the public pool isn’t available and open, you don’t swim,” Sutton said."

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/22/business/publi...reme-heat/index.html

I’d never known an area with so many pools as NOVA. Where I lived in [b]SE Michigan,[/b] we had to either go to a neighbors house or [b]a lake.[/b] There were and are very few community pools let alone private pool clubs. I didn’t know private pool clubs existed until I moved to NOVA.[/quote]

You had lakes. You also lived in Michigan where summer is not as hot nor as long as it is in the DC swamp. So your situation is Michigan was not the same. Can't compare. [/quote]

The topic is why America stopped building public schools.
Last I checked Michigan was part of America. Plenty of places don’t have pools and it isn’t about racism.[/quote]

Everything is racist. It was even racist when I had to use a slip and slide in my uncles back yard in Detroit when it was hot AF since there weren’t any public pools. Except one of the GM guys also lived on his block and was black, so those kids came too. It’s all very confusing. [/quote]

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