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Originally Posted by Docere
Re: Boston, are there really any WWC neighborhoods in the city proper at all?. Even famously Irish Southie is 60% college-educated, as is the historic Irish enclave of Charlestown.
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The suburbanish cop neighborhoods on the extreme southern end of town? I think the neighborhoods are West Roxbury and Hyde Park. They probably aren't economically working class, but I doubt they're particularly educated. Lots of union guys and firefighters and contractors.
Also, closer in-town, I've walked Dorchester Ave. and environs and it still seemed pretty WWC, at least as of 2007 or so. So possibly Dorchester. Might have since changed. Dorchester actually felt very gritty, tough white, like you still see in Philly, and not so much in NYC anymore.
Mattapan, to the south, is black West Indian, and Southie, to the North, is yuppie white, but both still have (or recently had) a WWC presence, I believe.