Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

'White flight' in Gwinnett?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 11/15/05 | BRIAN FEAGANS

Posted on 11/15/2005 11:31:36 AM PST by beaureguard

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-100 next last
To: PermaRag

I lived in Doraville when I first moved to Atlanta in '92. There was nothing country about it, well, unless you consider the Yucatan Peninsula "country".


21 posted on 11/15/2005 11:48:16 AM PST by rattrap
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: janetgreen

Excellent post, as usual.


22 posted on 11/15/2005 11:48:18 AM PST by Nea Wood (A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children. Proverbs 13:22)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: The people have spoken

15-20 miles, as the burro walks...


23 posted on 11/15/2005 11:48:27 AM PST by Andonius_99 (They [liberals] aren't humans, but rather a species of hairless retarded ape.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Texas_Jarhead

"This type of conversion in a reasonable barometer of cultural shift taking place in a neighborhood"

Ya' know what else is? The race of the people on billboard advertisements.

When I'm out of town or in some strange area, I can always go by that to tell when I'm getting into a different neighborhood.

However homogonized the gvt or various other groups insist we view our cities, I'm convinced the ad agencies must actually have racial maps in their offices.


24 posted on 11/15/2005 11:50:25 AM PST by Pessimist
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: ken5050
That's because, as hard as it may be for you to believe, there are Hispanic white people. There are even large populations of Hispanic Jews in South Florida.

Hispanics are of many races. Its just that the PRs and Dominicans in New York, and the Mexicans everywhere else, happen to be racially mixed, ie "nonwhite."

25 posted on 11/15/2005 11:50:42 AM PST by Clemenza (We are a REPUBLIC NOT A DEMOCRACY!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: RexBeach

What do they call when Jews up and leave, Jew Flew?


26 posted on 11/15/2005 11:51:48 AM PST by funkywbr
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: rattrap
I lived in Doraville when I first moved to Atlanta in '92. There was nothing country about it, well, unless you consider the Yucatan Peninsula "country".

Well, the A.R.S. wrote that song in the early 70s. A lot had changed by 1992, and I can't be sure they were telling the truth even in 1974, but they probably were. :-)

I lived a little south of Atlanta in the mid-1970s, but never made it to Doraville.

27 posted on 11/15/2005 11:52:37 AM PST by PermaRag
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: RexBeach

Or when blacks flee, Black OUT?


28 posted on 11/15/2005 11:52:38 AM PST by funkywbr
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Pessimist
Ya' know what else is? The race of the people on billboard advertisements.

Marketers are usually way ahead of the curve when it comes to sensing a changing neighborhood. What you said puts me in mind of a guy I met who told me he knew his nabe in Queens was changing when the ads for Newports with black folk were put up.

Other examples are signs in other languages, salons offering "hair straightening", and Halal meat markets. It all depends on the ethnic groups in question.

29 posted on 11/15/2005 11:54:17 AM PST by Clemenza (We are a REPUBLIC NOT A DEMOCRACY!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: janetgreen

It's tiresome to keep hearing that "all men are created equal". Nothing could be further from the truth, and it is a bastardization of the Declaration of Independence from which the quote came.

the rest of the statement goes, "...,endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights...". Yes people are created equal in that they are born with the same rights, some of which are life, liberty, and the right to pursue happiness.


30 posted on 11/15/2005 11:55:10 AM PST by PaRebel (The Constitution has no off-switch. Repeal the 17th amendment.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Pessimist
I'm convinced the ad agencies must actually have racial maps in their offices.

That may be true, but IMO ad agencies live in some parallel universe that has nothing to do with reality (watch any TV commercial) but reflects the way they WANT reality to be.

Therefore those billboards may be leading indicators, not lagging indicators.

31 posted on 11/15/2005 11:58:45 AM PST by PermaRag
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: PermaRag

I only have problems with TV ads that always show the man as stupid and the woman (or minority) being smart.


32 posted on 11/15/2005 12:00:02 PM PST by Clemenza (We are a REPUBLIC NOT A DEMOCRACY!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: funkywbr

That's "Israelite Flight".


33 posted on 11/15/2005 12:02:08 PM PST by Disambiguator (Making accusations of racism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: Nea Wood
You and I are both residents of the same border state, and we see this on a daily basis, everywhere we go, and we know that the resentment is growing, yet we're being told to shut up and take it, no matter how much it's costing us in dollars and quality of life.

Those of us who CAN'T leave this invaded state are leaving a huge mess for our children and grandchildren. The pandering politicians don't care as long as the numbers keep coming. We're importing poverty, disease, ignorance and dependence.

Someone please tell me WHY this is good for America??? I doubt if anyone can answer that question - our own President can't answer it. He's too busy planning Social Security for illegal aliens, planning the FTAA, blindly going ahead with his globalism plan that will destroy America.

34 posted on 11/15/2005 12:02:18 PM PST by janetgreen
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: RexBeach

I lived in a building in Chicago where most of my neighbors were mental cases collecting Section 8 vouchers to pay the rent. One of my neighbors constantly screamed out the window on how Lionel Richie was coming to rape him.


35 posted on 11/15/2005 12:02:49 PM PST by Clemenza (We are a REPUBLIC NOT A DEMOCRACY!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: janetgreen

Being that there are now illegals near where my sister lives in South Carolina, I can't really think of anyplace for folks to flee too.


36 posted on 11/15/2005 12:03:58 PM PST by Clemenza (We are a REPUBLIC NOT A DEMOCRACY!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: beaureguard

This is complete B.S. I am a so-called hispanic, and I would quickly get the hell out of any area were hispanics are the majority. It has nothing to do with race; but with behavior, culture, and economics.


37 posted on 11/15/2005 12:04:52 PM PST by gedeon3
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PermaRag

Someone else remembers that song? "Ain't much but it's home."

Doraville used to be a little town known for GM and Treasure Island. It's where you would get your driver's license because they did not make you parallel park. We could hang out in Doraville and not be afraid.

Not any more.


38 posted on 11/15/2005 12:04:56 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights (GOP, The Other France)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

Comment #39 Removed by Moderator

To: RexBeach

BUSH'S FAULT....For Real!


40 posted on 11/15/2005 12:12:39 PM PST by He'sComingBack! (Just another National Championship from the "weak" PAC-10)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-100 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson