Actually, there are a LOT of gentry liberals in the Capitol Hill area of DC now in what used to be horrible neighborhoods. They do have children (tended to by Guatemalan nannies). In some neighborhoods, there are so many gentry liberals that the local public elementary schools are safe and good. So their children attend the public schools. But they’re in private schools by middle school age.
Funny thing about many of those urban gentry liberals is the fact that they tend to drift conservative when they find out that they won’t burst into flame by doing so.
My neighbor’s grandson transferred to Detroit from NY a few years ago. He was already conservative since he grew up in my small town. He lives in a 4 or 5 block area of Mexicantown full of east coasters escaping the tax and regulatory burden of the east coast. My neighbor’s grandson is converting many of his neighbors.
A couple weeks back he was out here with a couple of his Quicken co-workers from New Joisey. They were on their way to my neighbor’s farm to do some shooting. The Jersey boys said that they had never touched guns before moving to Detroit and seeing their neighbors walking around armed like it was nothing.
“But they’re in private schools by middle school age.”
I thought private schools were elite and racist. Bastions of white privilege. How can there possibly be private schools in the gentrified areas of the city? Are those racist white Bible toting southern rednecks building these schools in northern urban centers?
All liberal urban whites are members of the community of mankind and demonstrate their compassion for people of color. They can’t possibly be sending their children to private schools. In fact good leftists oppose school vouchers for the urban poor because they didn’t want tax money perpetuating a system of privilege and institutional racism. How more noble can they possibly be? Would anyone who would deny a child living in poverty a voucher to attend a private school actually send their child to one?