Thanks. We have an opposite experience: as rents go up, indigenous people
move out and white folks move in. I live in an old suburb which was once
working class but is now being transformed into a middle-class young
families area. (In Perth, Western Australia, if you didn't know.)
Andrew
2008/10/12 Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
> "White flight" is the flight of white folks out of
> urban neighborhoods turning black. I saw a lot of that
> in Chicago back in the 60s.
>
> Hal
>
> McCain / Palin -- Just say thanks but no thanks.
> They're a bridge to nowhere.
>
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> On Oct 11, 2008, at 9:54 PM, andrew burke wrote:
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> I've heard of a 'white knuckle flight', but not a 'white flight'. What's
>> that? Andrew
>>
>> 2008/10/12 Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>> Amazing Interludes
>>>
>>>
>>> 1.
>>>
>>> Looking far down the street,
>>> the American lady made discreet
>>> inquiries as to reproductive technologies.
>>>
>>> 2.
>>>
>>> Her friend Henri often noted
>>> that it was harder to tell blacks from whites
>>> on radio than on TV.
>>>
>>> 3.
>>>
>>> Henri had a cousin named Germaine
>>> who'd never even heard the term
>>> "white flight."
>>>
>>> 4.
>>>
>>> The American lady had a lovely shell, rising
>>> above the vegetable soup
>>> simmering on the stove.
>>>
>>> 5.
>>>
>>> Henri recites Sun Tzu on the both the advantages
>>> and dangers
>>> of "accessible" ground.
>>>
>>> 6.
>>>
>>> Perhaps a thousand men hide in a row
>>> of poplars,
>>> guarding their lines of communication.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hal
>>>
>>>
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