Believe it or not according to my relatives that can remember that far back, Minnesota Ave and Anacostia used to be where the professionals used to live in DC. It was real nice about 60 years ago.
Agree, to a degree. Minnesota had a good category of resident, but Ward 4 (top of DC on the map) had and has the “Gold Coast” and Silver Coast. Very upper class black. Minnesota was a level down. East of the Anacostia River has always been one level down. And $100K-$200K less than the same house in Ward 4. Face it, Prince Georges County is just next door. 30-40 years it was heavily Southern Maryland “cracker”. Now PG is mostly where those Minnesota Avenue folks went. Some very nice places out there, as well as some not so nice garden apartments.
Things are very dynamic at this point, and gentrification is not slowing down. BTW, gentrification also includes black people from outside of DC. The local community doesn’t know how to handle them either.