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> So there's the anti-poor angle that rich deep-blue neighbourhoods take and that ends up being racially discriminatory because of the underlying demographics.
by edbob 6y ago
> So there's the anti-poor angle that rich deep-blue neighbourhoods take and that ends up being racially discriminatory because of the underlying demographics.
That makes sense, but that just raises the question of why racial demographics are so regressive in those areas.
I genuinely asked because I don't know much about the inner workings of progressive coastal areas. It seems like if nearly all of the politicians and most of the population are committed to very progressive racial policies, you would expect to see... I don't know what exactly, but not this. I'd like to understand why things went so wrong.
Are there any US cities that are good examples wrt to racial demographics? Something that we could learn from?
- renewiltord 6y agoThey are committed to these policies in the abstract but any time there are winners and losers for a policy, the losers will fight harder than anything. Second and third order effects are also hard to control through publicly popular policy. And I am not aware of any significantly sized US areas that don't have race-discrepancies in educational attainment. American society has very strong positive feedback loops and I think the strong economies of the coastal paradises amplify that. Take any uneven distribution of wealth and it will get worse in that environment.