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Originally Posted by Crawford
New Orleans is interesting in that it's a very troubled city, very large black population, highest murder rate in U.S. many years, yet the wealth centers haven't really shifted in the last century. Wealth is south/west of CBD, near St. Charles Ave. Despite all its issues, I bet it has one of the highest shares of in-town wealth in the U.S. There aren't really any wealthy suburbs.
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White New Orleanians must not be afraid of Black people like 80% of White America seems to be
New Orleans has been seen as one of the most interesting, cultured cities in America since the late 19th century, despite all of its shortcomings.
Ani DiFranco wrote this song in 2001, I believe.
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White people are so scared of black people
They bulldoze out to the country
And put up houses on little loop-dee-loop streets
And while america gets its heart cut right out of its chest
The berlin wall still runs down main street
Separating east side from west
And nothing is stirring, not even a mouse
In the boarded-up stores and the broken-down houses
So they hang colorful banners off all the street lamps
Just to prove they got no manners
No mercy and no sense
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