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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Somebody recently made this version which overlays FARMS percentages in clusters.  It is quite telling, and you can see where there can be some movement.  It is pretty obvious which schools will be tough to bus due to long commutes to higher FARMS rate schools.  I just don't see how they are going to create any diversity with those schools....they look pretty protected to me.  https://www.arcgis.com/apps/InteractiveLegend/index.html?appid=bf5860e2422b4816970eb80960f8019c&fbclid=IwAR0tlyWCuePkw9oJ3Wemm-jWQ7XUFLZ07awWNytnq2WhjUGBJ5oPH8CUcm4
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Fascinating map, thanks for sharing.[/quote]

Is it? Did anyone dispute that the poor minorities lived on the east side of town? Did anyone dispute that when there are concentrations of poor people that people with money avoid that area? When the rich flood to an area prices go up and poor people can’t move there so the select the cheap side of town. Those areas get more poverty which causes flight and here we are[/quote]

People like to pretend that segregation is the result of simple "choice" and "economics".  This is not actually what happened historically.  The reality is that white, wealthy people used the power of government through subsidized federal mortgage programs to buy housing in certain parts of the county while poor non-white people were left to buy property (if they could) without equal access to mortgage financing (both federal government supported and private mortgages).  Meanwhile, the law allowed property covenants on real estate to exclude black, other non-white and Jewish persons from the ability to own property.  Property covenants were widely used in MoCo until they were ruled illegal by SCOTUS.

See "Race for Profit" by Taylor and "The Color of Law" by Rothstein.

Nevermind on top of that all the problems that non-white non-male non-wealthy people have gaining and keeping equal employment opportunities which only further contributes to segregation and economic inequality.  [/quote]

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