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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]White flight killed Baltimore. I’ve been to a lot of mid Atlantic cities and it’s the most extraordinarily segregated. Whites took off to Baltimore and Howard Counties and let the city die.[/quote]

I'm from Baltimore. Redlining and housing discrimination shot Baltimore with a shotgun. Holding on to segregationist policies long after integration stabbed it. White flight AND middle class black fight pulled its heart out. The loss of Black and Decker and Bethlehem Steel cut it off at the knees. Its terrible relationship to the small business community and poor administrative management made it deathly ill. Add to that the huge loss of male role models to the Vietnam War, and the fact that it is still the top cutting and mixing spots for drugs coming up the I-95 corridor to NY, and now they have to recover from all that. Wonderfully quirky, soulful, beautifully ethnic, artsy -- some good things there. But all those gorgeous houses are full of lead, as are the people who used to live in them, and if you renovate one house, you have to renovate the whole neighborhood too or you lose all your dough. Tons of DC investors found that out the hard way.

I love my hometown and I hate it so much.[/quote]

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