On Jul 26, 2:00*pm, dave wrote:
Mike wrote:

I can agree totally with what Peter and Drifter have written.
Communities do
devolve to a point where only folks at the bottom of the economic
ladder are left.
The fact that these are often African-Americans is not so much a
testament
to the cultural inferiority of blacks as it is a statement about how
our basic
economic structure is racist. Along with Gregg, of course....

- In Houston and Dallas, they chased all
- the poor people out, leveled the ghettos,
- and installed yuppie housing for the
- unwashed masses who toil downtown.
-*The suburbs then become the new "inner city".

-wrt- Gentification Squared on Acid

More like a Gentry-Fried Square on Acid

Dave the suburbs remain the suburbs : They
may become run down and even 'ghettoized'
-but- They will never become the 'inner city' since
they are located outside the City proper.

downtown is downtown and up-town is up-town
and the suburbs ain't in-town at all ~ RHF