Why don't black and white Americans live together?

Re:Why don't black and white Americans live together? by clock_tower on Thursday September 22, 2016 @06:32PM (#12560889)

Nitpick: "White" is too coarse-grained for the North End; it's an ethnically mixed area near the end of gentrification, with SWPL elites displacing the native South Italians...

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Re:Why don't black and white Americans live together? by awesomerobot on Friday September 23, 2016 @09:27AM (#12564396)

A bit shortsighted that you'd call Italians 'native' to the North End — even if we disregard Native Americans, The North End began with Irish immigrants (who managed to push out a small African community in a section called New Guinea).

The Irish were ultimately pushed out by a mix of Jewish and Italian immigrants (the Jews ultimately shifted to Roxbury and the Italians took hold and established the North End as 'Little Italy').

I don't think gentrification is any more over than it was 100 years ago. It simply cycles.

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