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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I was addressing the apparent assertion that white people can't move to a neighborhood and also think that there are underlying reasons why an area is predominantly white and wealthy.[/quote]

Wealthy white people like Frumin buy housing in Tenleytown [i]is[/i] the reason why it's predominantly white and wealthy. If white people like him didn’t want to buy, it wouldn’t be so white.

That might seem overly simplistic, but that’s exactly what happened to the majority of white-only neighborhoods in the city. Go look at a map of where the racial covenants were. Most of those places became almost all black within a few decades after white people moved out. The long complicated, multi-faceted, historical, etc. reason that some people love to bring somehow didn’t prevent these all-white neighborhoods from quickly turning to almost all-black neighborhoods as soon as white people didn’t want to move there anymore. The white population in the city itself dropped from 72% in 1940 to 28% in 1970, with a corresponding rise in the black population, from 28% to 71%.

We see the reverse is true as well - plenty of plenty of neighborhoods that had no white people have suddenly gained a lot of white residents now that white people want to move their. When black residents became interested in moving into white suburbs, those suburbs quickly became majority black (PG County went from being 15% black to over 60% black in 30 years). You see this across the city and across demographics groups - white neighborhoods turning black, black neighborhoods turning white, white neighborhoods turning Hispanic, Chinatown in D.C. disappearing and moving to the suburbs, etc.

So yes, it’s ridiculous for Frumin to do the very thing that causes Tenleytown to be a cluster of wealthy white people, and then say he’s opposed to that clustering. People like him are the entire reason why the area is that white.[/quote]

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