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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are there so few public pools in VA?[/quote]

There’s a terrible history of white people creating private pools so that they could exclude Black folks from swimming. Here’s just one article about the phenomenon: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/06/10/americas-swimming-pools-have-a-long-sad-racist-history/[/quote]

And that pretty much continues with the private pools...[/quote]

I’m a white person who lives here but is from another area. The private pools feel very segregationist to me (still). [/quote]

at this point they reflect the people in their neighborhoods who want to join. At our pool, some houses are deaded with memberships, but everyone is on a wait list and it goes in chronological order. Membership is restricted to the zip code the pool is located in [/quote]

Not in Fairfax County.  Where are you?[/quote]

Eastern Fairfax [/quote]

No idea what that is supposed to be in relation to a swim club.  All of the ones mentioned to OP you can join from wherever.  Chesterbrook, Langley, Kent Gardens, Tuckahoe, Highlands, GF, can't think of the others off the top of my head.  None are restricted by zip or deeded.  Wait list, get summer membership, then full. [/quote]

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