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[quote=Anonymous]I worked in the Rehoboth and OC area in the late 1970's and thru the 1980's.

At that time Rehoboth was gay couples and old school, old name families from Wilmington and Philadelphia who had had the family beach houses going back to the 1920's.  Both Rehoboth and OC were surrounded by farms.  Peaches were
grown right out of Rehoboth and also corn. In the 1970's a number of mobile home parks were developed in the Millville
Long Neck Millsboro and Dagsoboro areas.  If a tract of farm land went to auction local lawyers bought up the land and put in mobile home parks that house thousands of residents.

Selbyville and Georgetown both have large chicken processing factories.  In the 1970's the production lines
were mostly staffed by white middle aged ladies.

Now white and black people don't want to work in the chicken factories so the chicken companies recruit Haitians and Hispanic workers from South Florida to move to Delaware.

A huge amount of land in the area 40 miles to the coast and in between has been developed and is marketed to retires. Delaware has low property taxes although that will most likely be changing.

Other than the poultry industry and some retail there is not much in the way of year round jobs in Sussex County.  Residents drive a long way typically for work.

I think the huge development over the decades starting with the trailer parks in the 70's and the housing developments that displaced what was farmland has changed the density of Rehoboth from what it used to be:
upper crust residents from the Mainline and the well to do from Wilmington and gay partners from the DC area.[/quote]

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