Were they the same people in both threads? Because if they weren’t, it’s not remotely ironic. Unless you find irony in the fact that different people have different ideas about different stuff. Which is a fairly low irony bar.
Regarding the History of PG County, perhaps Wendell Wagner could correct me if I am wrong, but I seem to recall that PG grew a lot in the 80s because of the Black middle class leaving DC for greener pastures and better schools.
My main beef with PG County is the number of Livingston Roads that they have.
Sorry, just had to point out these sequential posts, and then the fact that the chief is a dude named Michael Jackson.
Caffeine.addict writes:
> Regarding the History of PG County, perhaps Wendell Wagner could correct me
> if I am wrong, but I seem to recall that PG grew a lot in the 80s because of the
> Black middle class leaving DC for greener pastures and better schools.
That’s certainly part of it. What happened from the mid-1970’s to the present is simultaneously the following: A lot of whites who were reasonably well off and who liked the idea of living in the middle of a city (and who mostly didn’t have children) decided that since rents and house prices were cheap in the middle of the city that they would move there (i.e., gentrification happened). A lot of middle-class blacks who noticed that because of gentrification their rents and house values had started to go up, so it would be nice to live in the suburbs where the schools were better and they could afford larger houses and yards. Prince George’s County was the cheapest place to move to, although many also moved to Montgomery County and Northern Virginia.
As jimmmy says, the amount of poor neighborhoods with significant numbers of gang members in P. G. County is actually rather small. The poorest neighborhoods in the D.C. area (and the ones with the most gang members) are along the border between D.C. and Prince George’s County. Most of P. G. County is reasonably well off and some neighborhoods are downright rich.