This one hit me as well. There have been a few times in my life I have lived thus. Pretty much every white person that lived in the thick of it has moved to the whitest neighborhood possible. I had never really thought about it that way, until I read it. But often it the suburban libs screaming stuff like 'You racists or feed the homeless!" Until one lives night and day with the homeless outside their door in city community dominated by a specific culture, they have no idea of the reality. Every once in a while you meet someone who really loves it and that is cool. It is just not usually the case and at least they have direct experience rather than the suburban libbies that would never ever go there.
I asked a liberal once why she lived in Orange County California, at that time it was really a conservative county, and she said the “houses are nicer” LOL. I kind of feel the same way about people like Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi, they espouse liberal talking points, but when it comes to choosing where to live, do they choose to live in over-whelmingly democratic counties in NJ like Essex or Camden? no, they live in safe republican counties.