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Questionmarktarius posted...

Poor whites largely moved out to the boonies. Poor blacks haven't really had much success with that.

what happens is whites move into inner-ring suburbs, stay there for a generation, and then when black people manage to overcome enough generational inequities to move to the inner-ring suburbs, whites move even farther out into the exurbs

but it's not that poor whites are moving, those are affluent white people. durable white poverty in cities just doesn't exist the way durable urban poverty exists for blacks (or durable rural poverty for whites). that's entirely because poor whites can move into affluent white spaces and take advantage of the public resources and amenities in a way black people of any income cant

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