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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went there in the 80’s and it was very normal to see the confederate flag on belt buckles, t-shirts, car bumper sticker, and stickers on notebooks. I experienced this daily. It’s been 40 years so I hope a lot has changed. Because of my Sherwood experience, I only considered HBCUs.[/quote]

I’m very sorry you experienced that, PP.

But the entire county was around 8% Black in the 1980s, and that was largely concentrated down county.

Even the most diverse schools were overwhelmingly white in the 1980s.

The county did begin diversifying more rapidly towards the second half of the 80s and throughout the 90s.

At the risk of stating the obvious, it’s not the 1980s anymore.

The biggest difference I see as a lifelong county resident is socioeconomics: the Sherwood cluster is less poor and more uniformly MC/UMC than most parts of the county. Lots of BIPOC families move out there precisely to have their kids go to school in a more MC/UMC environment. The gang stuff that is more prevalent down county (thanks to more rentals) isn’t as big an issue in Sherwood (very few rentals). [/quote]

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