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Anonymous wrote:I’m an immigrant and POC and there is a significantly higher percent of us in NoVa than there is dc proper. Facts are hard I know.

DP but what are the facts? There is a significantly higher percentage of POC in NoVa than in DC? Or there is a significantly higher percentage of immigrant?

There are more Asians and Hispanics (20.2% and 16.4% respectively) in FFX than DC (11% Hispanic, 4% Asian), but fewer blacks (10% vs. 45%). Significantly more immigrants in FFX (31% vs. 14.7% in Dc).

Then your fact is wrong on POC. POC includes Blacks, therefore FFX percentage of POC is 47% while DC is 60%, going with your numbers.

PP referred to being an "immigrant and POC," so her reference was presumably was to those who fell in both categories. For you to assert her "fact is wrong" suggests you need to read more carefully.

It is you who need to read more carefully. I said her fact was wrong in regards to POC.

I am an Asian POC and there are way more of us in NoVA than DC. In fact, it is one of the reasons we didn’t even consider DC.

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There are more of what in NoVa...more Asian or more POC?

Anonymous wrote:Our entire block has Biden for President signs. - Bryn Mawr area in McLean.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, VA Democrats, but the sizeable number of Republicans is why I could never move to NoVa--as POC and an immigrant family, I would not feel comfortable raising a family there. DC or MD for this reason.

-VA native

It's fine, really. We can do without your sanctimony.

If you want to find out how progressive white Democrats in DC and MD really are, just suggest that the boundaries of Wilson and B-CC need to be redrawn to send some students to Cardozo and Einstein.

Wilson is 1/3 black and 1/3 Hispanic you dum dum.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, VA Democrats, but the sizeable number of Republicans is why I could never move to NoVa--as POC and an immigrant family, I would not feel comfortable raising a family there. DC or MD for this reason.

-VA native

You can help change the status quo by becoming a Virginia voter.

Not willing to put my kids through that--I've heard from colleagues about the experience of their black kids in North Arlington. Also just saw this news story the other day--this would never happen in my current neighborhood, where lots of kids have chalked similar sentiments on the sidewalk.

https://www.arlnow.com/2020/06/19/developing-county-workers-remove-black-lives-matter-chalk-art-on-juneteenth/

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Anonymous wrote:In broad terms, areas where houses are on bigger lots tend to be more conservative = Fairfax Station, Great Falls, the Langley-zoned areas in McLean, Oakton.

Depends on how you define conservative. Per the map PP posted, GF voted Dem in 2016. I would say many of the people here in GF are fiscally conservative, but not socially conservative.

2016 was such a unique election though. I bet if you put up a map of say, the Governor’s race in 2017 or Comstock vs Wexton Great Falls would look much more red

+1. And if you don't think Great Falls residents are socially conservative, all you have to do is suggest school boundaries might eventually change to send some Great Falls kids to a less wealthy middle and high school. That triggered the formation of a Great Falls-based group ("One Great Falls," which later changed its name to "Voices of Fairfax") that unsuccessfully tried in 2019 to replace most of the Democrats on the local School Board with Republican-endorsed candidates.

I don't get it. What's wrong with that mindset?? Great Falls residents (conservative or not) CHOSE to live there based on the available factors. Now you want to change those factors and complain that they are getting all worked up about it??

Sending your kids to a "wealthy" school is about...well, that IS the point isn't it. They CHOOSE to send their kids to a school environment where their peers will be "similar". What's wrong about that? And why shouldn't they complain if you want to change that??

Defend the behavior (which included Great Falls parents publicly disparaging Herndon as “gang-ridden“ and launching an expensive if unsuccessful effort to oppose School Board candidates whom they thought might be more open to a county-wide boundary review) if you want, but don’t then pretend they aren’t socially conservative. Not complicated.

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Anonymous wrote:In broad terms, areas where houses are on bigger lots tend to be more conservative = Fairfax Station, Great Falls, the Langley-zoned areas in McLean, Oakton.

Depends on how you define conservative. Per the map PP posted, GF voted Dem in 2016. I would say many of the people here in GF are fiscally conservative, but not socially conservative.

2016 was such a unique election though. I bet if you put up a map of say, the Governor’s race in 2017 or Comstock vs Wexton Great Falls would look much more red

+1. And if you don't think Great Falls residents are socially conservative, all you have to do is suggest school boundaries might eventually change to send some Great Falls kids to a less wealthy middle and high school. That triggered the formation of a Great Falls-based group ("One Great Falls," which later changed its name to "Voices of Fairfax") that unsuccessfully tried in 2019 to replace most of the Democrats on the local School Board with Republican-endorsed candidates.

I don't get it. What's wrong with that mindset?? Great Falls residents (conservative or not) CHOSE to live there based on the available factors. Now you want to change those factors and complain that they are getting all worked up about it??

Sending your kids to a "wealthy" school is about...well, that IS the point isn't it. They CHOOSE to send their kids to a school environment where their peers will be "similar". What's wrong about that? And why shouldn't they complain if you want to change that??

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Anonymous wrote:In broad terms, areas where houses are on bigger lots tend to be more conservative = Fairfax Station, Great Falls, the Langley-zoned areas in McLean, Oakton.

Depends on how you define conservative. Per the map PP posted, GF voted Dem in 2016. I would say many of the people here in GF are fiscally conservative, but not socially conservative.

2016 was such a unique election though. I bet if you put up a map of say, the Governor’s race in 2017 or Comstock vs Wexton Great Falls would look much more red

+1. And if you don't think Great Falls residents are socially conservative, all you have to do is suggest school boundaries might eventually change to send some Great Falls kids to a less wealthy middle and high school. That triggered the formation of a Great Falls-based group ("One Great Falls," which later changed its name to "Voices of Fairfax") that unsuccessfully tried in 2019 to replace most of the Democrats on the local School Board with Republican-endorsed candidates.

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Anonymous wrote:In broad terms, areas where houses are on bigger lots tend to be more conservative = Fairfax Station, Great Falls, the Langley-zoned areas in McLean, Oakton.

Depends on how you define conservative. Per the map PP posted, GF voted Dem in 2016. I would say many of the people here in GF are fiscally conservative, but not socially conservative.

2016 was such a unique election though. I bet if you put up a map of say, the Governor’s race in 2017 or Comstock vs Wexton Great Falls would look much more red

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Anonymous wrote:In broad terms, areas where houses are on bigger lots tend to be more conservative = Fairfax Station, Great Falls, the Langley-zoned areas in McLean, Oakton.

Depends on how you define conservative. Per the map PP posted, GF voted Dem in 2016. I would say many of the people here in GF are fiscally conservative, but not socially conservative.

Anonymous wrote:In broad terms, areas where houses are on bigger lots tend to be more conservative = Fairfax Station, Great Falls, the Langley-zoned areas in McLean, Oakton.

Anonymous wrote:In general, Fairfax feels far more integrated to me than DC (with its WOTP/EOTP divide), Montgomery (with its "W" schools and everything else) and Arlington (with its North/South divide). There are some areas that are very white and conservative (hello, Clifton and Great Falls), but otherwise it's as close to a well-integrated suburb as you're going to find in this region, and perhaps any region.

Anonymous wrote:In general, Fairfax feels far more integrated to me than DC (with its WOTP/EOTP divide), Montgomery (with its "W" schools and everything else) and Arlington (with its North/South divide). There are some areas that are very white and conservative (hello, Clifton and Great Falls), but otherwise it's as close to a well-integrated suburb as you're going to find in this region, and perhaps any region.