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I was in LA about 7 or 8 years ago and went to the Inglewood Area and to a Western Union in of all places ...Compton. I was suprised that Boys in da Hood turf looked more like lower middle class blue collar suburbia than the Cabrini Green/South Bronx/East St Louis setting I had imagined. It doesn't exactly look like ghetto (except Watts).

Here in Nashville, there are still a few black "hoods" that are relatively dangerous usually around housing projects. The working black class operating slightly above the poverty line is more and more melding with the like oriented white class. The hardest core black hoods are still almost universally black here.

The Mexican and Central American barrios are displacing working class older white hoods much like this article describes. We also have a decidedly Moose-Limb contingent which is displacing middle-middle white neighborhoods and borders the barrios area.

Indians, Asians, Russians(quite a few), and affluent blacks live anywhere they can afford the rent or home cost and nobody notices and there is no white flight except those who go to the metro counties for better public schools. Many of the Indians do use a peculiar blue shade they seem to prefer for their shutters..lol...periwinkle or something. Nashville has an extremely large white trash element....they are not so much rednecks anymore unless over 30-35 but rather seemed to have embraced the same culture as black "gangstas"....a troubling trend. I know...my office is in the thick of it and they compose a plurality of my tenants.

I did not know that any townships on Long Island outside of the Boroughs were suffering from this stuff.

When I was a boy, the Feds built projects within a half mile of our house....ah the wisdom of it all...lol...we were gone in a year at a loss for our home....it's full blown Dodge City there now....burned out cars, abandoned homes, thugs on every stoop all day long not working...a damned war zone. "Stroke of a pen...kinda cool"..NOT!

I did not know that any townships on Long Island outside of the Boroughs were suffering from this stuff

DG: It used to be worse in my opinion. Depends on who you talk to though. Hempstead "seems" to be getting better especially with the HUGE Home Depot shopping center they built not to far away. Garden City is still best to live in but if you don't have a few million to spare to buy a house there, forgetaboutit. When I first moved here it was definately worse with regards to the black population. Now that everyone has either gone to jail, gotten pregnant and moved back down south to grandma's house, or just moved, it's getting easier to take. More upwardly mobile black people are moving in which to me, is better than living next to hoodrats. I just have a big issue with the MASSIVE illegal renting problem that is making Hempstead's taxes go sky high.

I guess the situation is more complicated than whatever I can guess here.

they are not so much rednecks anymore unless over 30-35 but rather seemed to have embraced the same culture as black "gangstas"....a troubling trend. I know...my office is in the thick of it and they compose a plurality of my tenants

DG: Thank Eminem for that... everyone plays rap and other hiphop. Even the spanish language stations sometimes play the really popular rap, and the rock stations play the popular rap stuff. If I hear another Enimen song, I'm going to throw up.