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Yeah, of course. We sold out the last vestiges of small-town America but are not socially prepared for a world where the entire economy is focused around a sele

by ng12 8y ago

Yeah, of course. We sold out the last vestiges of small-town America but are not socially prepared for a world where the entire economy is focused around a select few cities.

Retric 8y ago
In 1930 5.9% of all Americans where living in NYC. The importance of cities has seen minimal changes, the issue is we stopped building enough housing and transportation infrastructure. Many US issues come from where we place the borders of our local governments. Local was more meaningful before the car, but with increased mobility that’s no longer the case.
- erik_seaberg 8y ago
  This. My commute crosses five incorporated cities in three counties, all barely distinguishable, but I can only vote in the one where I sleep.
  - jdavis703 8y ago
    My commute on BART and Caltrain in the Bay Area touched 4 counties and dozens of cities. The Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan area now officially spans five state-level entities: Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. Yet our political structures don’t recognize this new regionalism.
- bobthepanda 8y ago
  Suburban political boundaries were drawn this way intentionally. The “solution” for integrated school districts was to pack up and leave for places that minorities couldn’t afford to move to, so you could keep your kids going to all-white schools. Even today undoing those boundaries is fraught by the specter of history. https://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt--politics/fears-about-marta-suburbs-familiar-but-changing/kfrTElU7l1c0w9TJRgGsPJ/amp.html https://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt--politics/fears-about-ma...
  - thatoneuser 8y ago
    It's not about all-white for the most part. It's about having a "good" school that does the most for your kid. The racial profile is an artifact of many other social issues. If we want to solve racial issues in our society we have to stop demonizing people for wanting good things for themselves and their families as being racially motivated, when the racial correlation is almost purely incidental.

by ng12 8y ago

Yeah, of course. We sold out the last vestiges of small-town America but are not socially prepared for a world where the entire economy is focused around a select few cities.

Retric 8y ago

In 1930 5.9% of all Americans where living in NYC. The importance of cities has seen minimal changes, the issue is we stopped building enough housing and transportation infrastructure. Many US issues come from where we place the borders of our local governments. Local was more meaningful before the car, but with increased mobility that’s no longer the case.

erik_seaberg 8y ago
This. My commute crosses five incorporated cities in three counties, all barely distinguishable, but I can only vote in the one where I sleep.
- jdavis703 8y ago
  My commute on BART and Caltrain in the Bay Area touched 4 counties and dozens of cities. The Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan area now officially spans five state-level entities: Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. Yet our political structures don’t recognize this new regionalism.
bobthepanda 8y ago
Suburban political boundaries were drawn this way intentionally. The “solution” for integrated school districts was to pack up and leave for places that minorities couldn’t afford to move to, so you could keep your kids going to all-white schools. Even today undoing those boundaries is fraught by the specter of history. https://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt--politics/fears-about-marta-suburbs-familiar-but-changing/kfrTElU7l1c0w9TJRgGsPJ/amp.html https://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt--politics/fears-about-ma...
- thatoneuser 8y ago
  It's not about all-white for the most part. It's about having a "good" school that does the most for your kid. The racial profile is an artifact of many other social issues. If we want to solve racial issues in our society we have to stop demonizing people for wanting good things for themselves and their families as being racially motivated, when the racial correlation is almost purely incidental.