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Re:Mountain View approves 10,000 homes by Google's North Bay... by rs999gti on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @01:59PM (#16431939)
> did the slums exist before the highways and freeways that divide them from the wealthy whites?

You mean Oakland and Vallejo? Yeah that stuff has been there before the start of SV. See MC Hammer and Too Short for references to past gang activity in Oakland.

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Re:Mountain View approves 10,000 homes by Google's North Bay... by bluehat on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @02:29PM (#16432200)
...you think MC Hammer predates SV? We started out as the site where transistors were made. That is also why the ground is so horrendously toxic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Semiconductor
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Re:Mountain View approves 10,000 homes by Google's North Bay... by dragonwriter on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @02:58PM (#16432442)
Those references are not before the highways and freeways mentioned upthread, and also do not predate Silicon Valley. (Too Short and MC Hammer were in elementary school when Silicon Valley was first recognized as a thing.)
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