I can see America breaking up into small communities, based on political, religious, ethnic groups.
It’s been happening for decades if you’ve paid attention to trends.
It is very, very sad.
Left vs. right.
White vs. black vs. Latino.
Where will this end? HOW DOES it end?
NJ has been segregated since the first non-whites arrived. It is further exacerbated when the non-whites become the majority of school students while a minority of homeowners; NJ whites are tired of paying the highest property taxes in the country to school someone else’s children. The white flight patterns seen across cities in the past are now happening throughout our whole state.
Maybe Jaco can be excused for not referring to Don Phares’ analysis of Webster Groves North and University City through the sixties. It could be difficult for a drunk. Is he writing pro bono?
However, the pattern of white flight is this;
1960- move from Grand/St. Louis area to Walnut Park
1967- move from Walnut Park to Jennings, Pine Lawn, Bellefontaine; North Pointe and Baden solid.
1975 move from North Pointe and Baden; Florissant opens up.
1980 Jennings, Ferguson and Riverview experience “white flight” to Hazelwood and Florissant. St Charles county starts taking off.
I do not relate this with any moral tinge. Evidence showed that the margins between white and black areas had a high rate of all social pathologies which adjusted once the neighborhood regained am ethnic identity. This was not true in the city limits. All within the city limits just sucks, and anyone with sense who can will move.