D Street projects and some surrounding areas were sewers until the city cleaned up the projects and the housing boom happened. Old Colony projects held some serious white trash as well. The white people who lived in those areas had a lot more in common with the blacks that they detested than they would ever care to admit.
Yep. You are correct.
So you're saying 'serious white trash' have a lot in common with blacks.
You really sound more racist than anybody I ever met in Southie.
People in the projects -- white and black -- tended to make friends with each other. The teenagers, yes, and gangs were and are another story. (Though I understand criminal gangs around here integrated early.)
D Street was pretty good in the 60s, in spite of the fact that Housing Authority was the prototypical nesting grounds for hacks. There were a lot of good people there.