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Gentrify!
Townhall.com ^ | March 25, 2015 | John Stossel

Posted on 03/25/2015 4:53:47 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: TexasFreeper2009
The real truth is... gentrification = less minority voters blindly voting for the incompetent person on the ballot with a “D” after their name.

Tex, you got a fair chance of being ....gasp ....wrong ....on this one.

Take DC for instance (Pleae!) your average gentrifier seems to be a yupped-out gubmint employee who will crawl naked over broken car window glass (that and broken malt liquor bottles) to several precincts to vote for Kid Kenya/or equivalent, early and often.

21 posted on 03/25/2015 6:28:49 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk ( Obama told us what he'd do, and did it. How about your Republican Representative?)
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To: Adder
Yeah, many if not most of the new whites in these areas probably still vote Democratic... BUT they wont just vote for some idiot like Shella Jackson Lee, they will replace the token black who has held the office for decades who cant even read with a more competent person with a D after their name.

I know.. from our perspective, that's not exactly a big win, but from the safe black incompetent politicians prospective... their JOB is on the line when these liberal whites move in.

22 posted on 03/25/2015 6:42:16 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Disagree. Many of the gentrified areas around Atlanta
have John “Did I mention that I was in Selma?” Lewis and Hank “Guam tipping over “ Johnson as their representatives.

John Lewis generally runs unopposed. I saw lawn signs for him last election cycle in the old money, scary rich,guilty white area of Druid Hills ( the neighborhood
“Driving Miss Daisy was filmed in)>


23 posted on 03/25/2015 7:11:26 AM PDT by son of awcomeonnow ( HUD is the root of most evil)
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To: son of awcomeonnow

well.. the process seems to take awhile, it just doesn’t happen overnight.

What usually happens is that the safe black gets replaced with a white liberal sodomite.


24 posted on 03/25/2015 8:11:33 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
The real truth is... gentrification = less minority voters blindly voting for the incompetent person on the ballot with a “D” after their name.

Looking at the voting records of NYC residents at all income levels over the past 50 or so years, I respectfully disagree. Wealthy whites vote D out of guilt; poor minorities vote D out of gibsmedat.

25 posted on 03/25/2015 8:18:26 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: petercooper

[ I’m always amazed at these low income (or no income, only our tax dollars for EBT, Section8, etc..) areas, and how they are littered with garbage and debris all over the sidewalks, and in empty lots. These people have no pride in the areas in which they live, to pick up a broom and clean up. No personal responsibility to try to go out and get a job to better themselves. No understanding of the concept of work ethic. It’s unreal. Oh, they must be typical Obama voters. ]

That is because as soon as they become a “gibs me dat” contingent the government and their culture strips away the concept of “property ownership” and the “tragedy of the commons” takes over.

If you have section A housing why do you care if you punch a hole in the wall or not? It is not your stuff you are wrecking so you don’t care anymore.

This is why in these areas the only “nice” things are the cars because that is one of the few things the people actually OWN.

To solve this you get people off the government dole and when they actually have to dump their TIME into earning money to buy things they start to take better care of things.


26 posted on 03/25/2015 8:35:46 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: manc

AAAAAMEN, amen, amen.


27 posted on 03/25/2015 8:39:55 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: Kaslin
...urban planner Robert Moses got city bureaucrats to condemn and destroy busy black neighborhoods. The city called the neighborhoods "blighted" and moved many of the poor into rent-subsidized apartment complexes called "projects." Many quickly became slums.

This is how the land for Lincoln Center was acquired.

28 posted on 03/25/2015 1:05:36 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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Freeman writes, "poor residents and those without a college education were actually less likely to move if they resided in gentrifying neighborhoods."

It took a Columbia professor to figure out that when you improve a neighborhood, people are more likely to stick around. Who would have ever guessed.

29 posted on 03/25/2015 1:08:37 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Kaslin

Bookmark


30 posted on 03/25/2015 1:12:33 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (OMING!!!@)
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To: Kaslin

Liberals=Master Hypocrites


31 posted on 03/26/2015 3:55:02 AM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Impy

Liberals own hypocrisy


32 posted on 03/26/2015 4:04:08 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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