Gentrification by African-Americans generally brings out very strange, not
to say atavistic reactions from rural and small town European-Americans.
The story of the shift in Montgomery County, MD is telling. As tens of
thousands of black people moved out of Washington, DC into that suburb, the
country became obviously blacker, but also wealtheir and better educated.
While this integration was carried out fairly peacefully, I will bet there
is a doctoral dissertation lurking in a close research of the process.
A similar gentrification is taking place to the south, in Virginia, where I
read even the Northern Neck region is being subdivided. As an historian of
the South, I never simply dispose of race as a subject of analysis, but the
moving of portions of the black (and Latino) administrative and professional
elite (I hate the term middle class because it describes so little) into
developing northern Virginia will also raise sharp questions of class as
well.
Harold S. Forsythe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Morrow" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE... free speech
> And shudder you should.
>
> I publish a newspaper in Middleburg, Virginia, pehaps aptly named, The
> Middleburg Eccentric.
>
> We received racist threats and Klan-style (and language) demands for our
> editor to leave town. Her sin: balanced reporting on efforts to build
> an Inn on land adjacent to Middleburg by one of the founders of BET.
>
> I hope someone's archiving these exchanges.
>
> Some graduate student in 2107 will no doubt find them revealing of the
> mindset of the early 21st stewards of the Knowledge Trust . . . evidence
> of ongoing struggles to rationalize the unreasonable . . . and a sad
> commentary on the persistence of racism in our beloved Old Dominion.
>
> Best,
>
> Dan
>
>
> On Jan 20, 2007, at 3:32 PM, Sunshine49 wrote:
>
>> I shudder to think what "perspective" that is...
>>
>> Nancy
>>
>> -------
>> I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
>>
>> --Daniel Boone
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 20, 2007, at 12:21 PM, Daniel Morrow wrote:
>>
>>> Good Lord.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 19, 2007, at 10:57 PM, Theresa Toney Willson wrote:
>>>
>>>> HOORAY to Mr. Hargrove!!!!!! It is about time that someone have the
>>>> guts to finally step up to the plate and put things into prospective!
>>>
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