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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Curious why UP is so white?  Is there something historically that made that particular area not welcoming to non-whites?[/quote]

PG county was predominately white for a very long time, especially areas like Bowie. It changed in the past 30 years maybe? UP/CH have stayed very white bc there is so little inventory and very few if any new houses being built. And I've met many people here who have inherited their homes from parents or family member. And a lot of the homes are still occupied by original homeowners.

And there are whispers of steering by some of the older real estate agents.[/quote]

There are some great local historians who have done good work around the varying forms of segregation in the area over time. North Brentwood has a long and really important history of Black homeownership and culture that goes back to just after the Civil War when the land was sold by an officer to his former soldiers. I honestly don’t know the details and sadly I don’t think the museum there survived the pandemic. But they have also done some restoration work on a tavern there that hosted major Black musicians, I think basically for after parties when they performed in DC.

At this point I think the real estate process is as unbiased as anywhere else (which is to say still pretty bad I think re loan approval and such). I think what happens is the land and housing stock in the formerly white areas are fancier, so the prices are higher, so maybe they stay whiter because of economic correlations, and on and on.

Definitely in Mount Rainier there have been some fairly definable waves of population with different races in the majority. It will be interesting to see what happens next but for right now, imo Rte 1 is about as good as it gets in terms of diversity (racial and economic) and the safe, convenient suburban experience. Of course there’s still problems, but I don’t know of anywhere else in the area that’s better. [/quote]

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