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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]  That’s not specific to Potomac. Thats all of Montgomery county.

Also Potomac is 80% White/Asian… I get that you know some world bank people … congrats.[/quote]

Uninformed comment (and racist -- you're the one being reductive about Asian Americans, not PP).  Potomac has a notably high Asian-American population, even by Montgomery County standards.  Potomac ES's student body is 29% Asian, compared to 39% white.   And the percentage of population that's Black in Potomac is twice as high as in neighboring Bethesda.  With the majority of the local school student bodies being non-white, it's kind of silly to assert that Potomac is a product of 'white flight.'   And the data rebut the assertion that Potomac's demographic mix is the same as "all of Montgomery County."

Add to that the fact that Potomac and adjacent Rockville are the center of Montgomery County's Jewish population -- yes, also specific to Potomac, which is more Jewish than Bethesda, Chevy Chase, most of Silver Spring, and further out communities like Gaithersburg, Germantown and beyond -- and Potomac is actually significantly more diverse than it appears (except when it comes to income level, where frankly few US suburbs are models of economic diversity).

Indeed, one of the interesting disconnects of Potomac is that when you drive around, much of it looks like the epitome of WASPy horse-country Main Line/Greenwich style exurbia, but in fact many of the residents are just one generation away from either the old country or from American parents who faced restrictive covenants on where they could live.   Potomac's obvious wealth and excesses make it an easy target for snarky critics on DCUM (often tinged with an ugly nativist bias against the tastes of foreign born nouveaux riches), but in many respects it's the American dream come true.

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+1. Well said.[/quote]

The “right type” of diversity. Dude Potomac has been saying this for decades. Just don’t put affordable housing in Potomac. [/quote]

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