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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]The real problem is income segregation. In DC it is all rich white people, all poor brown/black people. It's not like that everywhere. I think here we correlate success to race, but instead it's really success to SES. [/quote]

DC also has plenty of well-educated, high SES black folks. For some reason, they tend to get left out of the conversation frequently. [/quote]

Jesus, "all poor brown/black"??? The President of the United States is Black, if you didn't notice.

As long as you're being apocryphal, [b]you could say "there are few poor white people in DC", and be closer to the mark.[/b][/quote]

This is really the point.  There are brown/black people all over the SES map, however there haven't been any poor white people since white flight.  All the white people here are middle class and higher.  Ergo, "white" becomes shorthand for "middle class and higher."  The next step is that race becomes conflated with SES.

For the record, I think that's mostly a WotP thing.  Everybody east of the park knows higher SES brown/black people no matter what race they personally happen to be.[/quote]

well some of the white flight was parents continuing to stay in DC just putting their kids (like me) in private schools.  Of course at that point the tuition was easy to pay for two or three kids on one income, even at NCS etc.  Now we are talking about white flight out of the city, not just out of the schools, because i cannot afford privates for my 3 kids so it is go charter or go MoCo if this nonsense happens[/quote]

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