The first time I heard the word “urban” to mean something different from “in the city” was from some liberal educators I happened to be working with. I was confused when one of the schools they were talking about was way beyond the city limits and out in the middle of the corn fields. They explained that an urban school is a minority-
majority school, no matter where it is physically located, and that’s the term they always used. It seemed to me more of a euphemism of the left.
“It seemed to me more of a euphemism of the left.”
Definitely, only the leftists use “urban” in that sense. In fact, B.E.T., the television station owned by and run exclusively for blacks, markets itself as “urban” constantly.