Posted on 08/09/2020 5:50:01 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
In recent weeks, as President Donald Trump has returned time and again to the well-worn campaign playbook of white suburban fears accusing Joe Biden of wanting to abolish the suburbs, promising to block low-income housing from being built, and protecting property values the whole routine has elicited hand-wringing that Trump has Americas increasingly Democratic suburbs all wrong.
And thats true, says Thomas Sugrue, director of metropolitan studies at New York University and a historian of race and city-suburb relations, Trump has misread the reality of todays suburbs.
But the thing is, most of the rest of us have, too.
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Were seeing a suburban political divide quite different from the one that played out after World War II, when well-to-do, middle-class and even some working-class whites living in suburbia found common ground by looking through their rearview mirrors with horror at the cities they were fleeing, says Sugrue. ....
Were seeing the results of that play out in elections. Trump supporters are more likely to be clustered in the outlying, more heavily white suburbs, and Democrats are making real inroads into the communities with more heterogeneity and better-off whites, says Sugrue. Thats a really big change.
But theres a whole lot more to the story. Just because certain suburbs are trending blue doesnt exactly mean theyre woke to the racial politics that have long plagued suburbia. White liberal suburbanites have played a critical role in the process of housing segregation and the resistance to low-income housing, says Sugrue. We cant just think about it as torch-bearing angry white supremacists. If they were the only obstacles to equality in suburban housing, we would have come a lot farther than we have.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
“The further out you live, the fewer services. In time, you learn not to want them in the first place.”
Exactly.... we have become “accustomed” to modern day conveniences and know not what to do when faced without them.
Modern society has been dumbed down to the point of self destruction.
Like a have a heart mouse trap? Just kill the damn mouse. Any tip on how remove skunk smell near my front door?
I respectfully disagree.
Leftists have mesmerized each other into believing a lie so preposterous that normal people like you and I are shocked when we witness it.
They are in love with the idea of urban life. They look at those cities and see picture postcard images, not the reality of drugs and crime and corruption. Every so often they get jarred into reality - usually by being mugged - and that steers them away from the urban madness.
But most never see the bullet that hits them.
The president is not a king. Trump doesnt have the power to spend money that hasnt been appropriated. He doesnt have the power to suspend taxes.Actually, he does have the right to suspend taxes during a national emergency.
Congress bestowed that power to the Executive Branch when President Clinton was in office.
The authors of this garbage may “know” what the voters in Taxachusetts want, but they do not know what the burbs in flyover country want.
The arrogant ignorance of these people is astounding.
Politico’s hard-core racist writer seems to think that only white people want to live in safe neighborhoods and neighborhoods that aren’t devolving into slums via homelessness, trash, and decay.
Politico has a real grasp on suburbia. /s
This guy is a clown/fool. In the 90s many cities followed Guiliani in gentrifying their neighborhoods, taking up the broken window theory, and policing in cleaning up their cities that used to look like hollowed out war zones. In 20 years they now are reversing course and dont know why? Morons.
This article is one soy boy talking to another soy boy.
Abolish the suburbs, promising to block low-income housing from being built, and protecting property values.
It’s nothing new most large cities have been doing it for years they call the projects housing for low income.
Anyone who has been to NY,Chicago .... has seen them.
O great Politico, lay your wisdom about the suburbs upon us, that we may bask in your smartness!
There reverse racism beliefs show through again. This idiot is saying, if a community is homogenized they will not be conservative or vote Republican. In other words, "if you ain't voting for Slow Joe, you ain't Black!" Oh what fools these Democraps be?
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