Pressed by a New Invasion of Yankees, Schools of the New South Resegregate

Newhouse News ^ | 7/30/2005 | Jonathan Tilove

[Pyro7480]

Ok, then by your definition, I'm not a Yankee. Thanks for the clarification. ;-)

[cowboyway]

My M-I-L's home in Huntington Station NY could easily sell for $700,000. Easy. Move it to a ritzy part of Cary, Raleigh, Chapel Hill, etc... You would get $350,000 tops, in a strong sellers market.

And another thing, I'm working in Palm Beach County and a $700K house ain't that great of a place.

A $350K house is quite often a piece of crap.

[Mark in the Old South]

We were invaded 150 years ago and we are being invaded now. But some how I am sure they will all come to the conclusion it is white Southerners fault.

I don't mind Yankees
I don't even mind the ones that come to visit and never leave.
But for the love of Pete DON"T TELL ME HOW IT WAS DONE IN BOSTON.

The road that brung ya South heads North too.

[NativeNewYorker]

The Catholic schools in NYC run ~$3000/year. The seculars cost SEVEN TIMES AS MUCH.

[billbears]

Really PL no offense but what is it with a bagel? Wouldn't you like a nice piece of toast for a breakfast food or even better a warm KK doughnut?

[CatoRenasci]

I always love the transplants' self-righteous claims not to have 'Southern White Baggage'. While I didn't grow up in the South, my mother's family was thoroughly Southern: UDC, DAR, FFV, veterans of both sides of The War, significant slaveholders before The War, yellow dog democrats and all that. And you know what, I don't feel the least big guilty! F'em.

[AzaleaCity5691]

Here's an idea, don't live where it's expensive.

No one has a right to an education and I personally think it's time we dismantle the public school system altogether.

[Phantom Lord]

I lived in Raleigh. I'm originally from NC. Homes in the 'ritzy' part of Raleigh go for quite a bit more than $350K.

See my earlier post about gap toothed and inbred. Did you read what I wrote? I said 'her house would sell for.' NOT that homes in that part of raleigh sell for that.

BTW, why don't you go back home?

Why would I want to go back to winter, higher taxes (though NC now exceeds Mass. in tax burden), and a poor economic climate?

[Phantom Lord]

And thats they way it is in NY once your east of the Hudson.

[Phantom Lord]

KK donughts suck. There, I said it.

I have toast often. RYE TOAST!

[AbeKrieger]

What rights did you pay for?... And please fill me in on which Rights granted in the Constitution have a price tag.

I sold my former home at a loss because of the destruction of the neighborhood. I left (what, racist white flight?) for a better school district in one of those "insular" districts. Yes, I ran the numbers on the schools and pay a very high tax rate. But I get what I pay for, and if someone wants to lay a label on me, go for it, but the facts are the facts. And I don't recall invoking the constitution.

[NativeNewYorker]

I actually love living in New York, and the cost of living is my fee. Having grown up here, I don't view it as extraordinarily expensive. Everywhere else is just cheaper!

[billbears]

Hey PL is pretty straight up. Not every yankee is out to change us. It's just the ones that think they know better than us on everything. And anybody that is at least somewhat familiar with BBQ can't be bad at all. I've got some yankee friends. Let's see, I know at least two people from far north Virginia...

[Mark in the Old South]

Re: "It's definitely a "Maybe not.". Buckhead has been taken over by the 'hip hop' crowd and the associated gunfire and thuggery that accompany it."

That is a pity. I used to live there, The first apartment building behind the Alhambra Apartments on Peachtree St. My apartment and the neighborhood was the only thing I liked in Atlanta.

[billbears]

KK donughts suck. There, I said it.

Well that's just almost amounts to blasphemy

I have toast often. RYE TOAST!

Need to get you some good ol' Sunbeam White bread... LOL

[Constitution Day]

Actually we are moving here becasue companies realized they couldn't compete with a work force comprised of gap toothed, inbred hicks. So they imported a more talented group of people.

Saaay.
Wasn't it you who had the relative who died when he fell (drunk) off the barstool, headfirst into a mop bucket, and drowned?

If that ain't inbred hick behavior, I'll eat my hat.

;^)

[Incorrigible]

This really all boils down to the madness of government schooling linked to specific pieces of real estate.

But that is what the northerners moving to Charlotte are trying to do.  Essentially, the large school district there doesn't make it advantageous to live in a specific suburb, thus the migrants are trying to change that.  The irony that many on the thread are pointing to is that northern liberal politicians foisted this setup on the south, a situation that didn't exist in the north, and now they're moving down there and they don't like it.

However, I would encourage all the westsiders to stay and make the schools better rather than coming to New Jersey and voting for McGreevey!

[Trillian]

I've never had bagel bread, wow that sounds good!
If anyone is willing to share a recipe I would appreciate it :)
I make my own bagels whenever the craving hits me.

[Capt. Jake]

How ironic that the author would choose to quote Hugh McColl on the virtues of integrated schools when he sent his kids attended the same lilly-white private school that I did. The truth is that the school system here is not resegregating. It has gotten so bad that anyone who can leave does leave.

[AbeKrieger]

Did somebody ping you and call you a racist, or are you just being a hypersensitive ass?

Well, I am a White Flighter who left a ghetto and moved into a basically all-white neighborhood and school district. Everyone "knows" why I moved. Not for the safety or the schools (the truth), but to get away from a "certain" demographic (their side). I am used to the so-called progressives label me a racist, and the article makes plenty of obvious and not-so-obvious innuendo.