09-29-2009, 01:05 PM
Quote:I think it's safe to say residential areas are segregated everywhere, it certainly is on Long Island, altho I don't see gated communities where I am. But the workplace was crazy. If you were a professional you were white, if you worked a service job you were black. At least that's how I viewed it as a NE hippie at the time. This was 10 years ago tho, perhaps times have changed.
That was certainly not true of Savannah when I lived their as a kid.. It was amazing as you had the old money who thought they were an aristocracy (much like New Orleans - news flash, snobs, you live in a shithole of a town!) and then the straight up hood right down the street. I remember Atlanta being a ghetto but haven't been there since I was 10 or so...
Houstons got pretty good 'rich block 2 blocks down from crack block' areas too.
I think the segregation is in the suburbs, if you live in residential places in cities its generally more mixed. Unless the city is some scum bucket like Baltimore where its a hellhole everywhere.
Then again, my extended Georgia family is pretty much white trash so maybe I just never saw the nice segregated communities.