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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ Here's one thing I don't get - that it's mostly AA, and that we also have a disproportionately high unemployement/underemployment rate among AAs in DC, with so many teetering on the brink of homelessness/financial disaster.  Yet it seems that on so many construction sites, in so many restaurants, hotels, et cetera you will see a lot of latino workers.  In many cases they came 2,000 miles to a city they don't know, barely able to speak the language, an likely not able to produce evidence of a diploma, et cetera.  Yet they were able to find work, whereas people who grew up here, who know the city, who speak the language evidently can't seem to manage to find work?  Likewise, the latinos manage to find places where they can afford to live - and in most cases aren't even eligible for subsidies, et cetera.  Yet the DC-born and raised can't seem to find their own asses with both hands?[/quote]

What's your best guess?[/quote]

Culture and the environment you're raised in.  Contrast it with AA entrepreneurism happening in PG - different values and culture there.[/quote]

Isn't pg largely populated by successful aas who move out of poor neighborhoods (including DC) as quickly as possible?[/quote]

A lot continue to sup at the DC government slop trough.  Many shady, well-connected DC crony "consultants" and contractors have turned their spoils into McMansions in Upper Marlboro.[/quote]

Yep[/quote]

I'm sure as DC becomes whiter and whiter, those who slop at the DC gov trough will be whiter as well.  Just look at DCPS central office.  However, I'm sure you'll have nothing dispariging to say about white government workers and white crony consultants who already turn their spoils into mcMansions in NOVA, MoCo, and renovated DC homes.

PG county is inhabited by people from all over the country, not just poor people who moved from DC.  There are some middle-class AAs who moved to the suburbs because that wa part of the national trend from the 70's and 00's.  Now the trend is for middle class people to move back to the city.[/quote]

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