If one wants to make a disparaging (and accurate) remark about Massachusetts...or Greater Boston....it would be far more fitting to make reference to Cambridge...or Brookline...or Beacon Hill...the Back Bay...the Fenway...Belmont....Newton (where I grew up).They are all largely white,obscenely wealthy (thanks to trust funds),and largely Maoist areas.lots and lots and *lots* of Teslas with "Think Globally,Act Locally" bumper stickers...along with the compulsory Obola/Biden bumper stickers.
"South Boston" (where my parents grew up in the early 1900's) was,until very recently,largely Irish,largely white and largely uneducated.Today it's being gentrified...increasingly populated with hip young things with more money (or,at least,*income*) than sense.
I was just picking a town.
This Jewish guy lived in Brookline (shocker, I know, being Jewish, but that’s kind of my point)and rode his bike through Allston and Cambridge to go to school at MIT.
Allston was then pretty much working class Irish and when you crossed the Charles immediately because a black ghetto.
For such a supposed “progressive” town, Boston has the most cleanly delineated lines along race/religion/class of any town I have ever seen, reviling East and West Jerusalem.
I came to school looking for a house (I am Israeli and rather obviously Jewish), and the housing agent for MIT flatly refused to show me any brownstone near campus (”Cambridge is not a ‘good fit’ for you”) and just took me to Brookline.
Worked out well, and she was probably right, but was my first taste of the de facto segregation -— which was, in my case, probably for my own safety.
Nonetheless, still absurd to get lectured by twits who live in such segregation.
Newton is a great place——and lots of Asians compared to a few years ago.
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