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To: unclewest who wrote (87355)	11/20/2004 12:13:42 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794531

Errrr . . . . the residents of Dupont Circle are mostly singles, with a very high proportion of gays. It's sort of the DC version of the East Village or Castro St. The "white" areas of DC are actually more integrated than you'd think. The stratification of "white" areas is social, not ethnic. The "black" areas, on the other hand, are not mixed, but they're the type of places that more affluent blacks don't want to live, either, so I would argue that's social stratification, as well. Ethnic mixing became more common after the capitol gains tax exclusion was raised. People "moving up" to nicer houses didn't need to "move out" to the 'burbs to avoid paying capitol gains tax. So there's a real pattern of young affluent people buying and fixing up houses in areas that used to be decaying. I don't live in DC, I live in Fairfax, but on my block three of the neighboring families are black, three Asian (one Chinese, two Vietnamese), one Indian, one Middle Eastern, and five white (including one gay guy who is an interior designer). These are the type of people who work at the World Bank, IMF, and various agencies of federal, state and local government, plus small business owners and a sprinkling of retirees. DC area is very, very mixed.

To: unclewest who wrote (87355)	11/21/2004 9:04:53 AM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794531

The issue was community schooling. West Roxbury had the Patrick Lyndon up to 6th grade and the Robert Gould Shaw junior high. You had to go to Roslindale High of Hyde Park High in those days if you couldn't get into Boston Latin, an exam school, if you wanted to stay in public school. (BTW, Roxbury Latin is a private school across from St. T's. The nation's oldest school is Boston Latin, located near Fenway park.) West Roxbury High wasn't built until about 25 years ago. Catholic schools also became an option for those who could afford it. Anyway, W. Rox had few blacks, as did many of those neighborhood. When they started busing blacks into white neighborhoods to go to school, and busing whites into blacks neighborhoods, both the whites and the blacks objected. Any of them that could afford to left the city for Milton, Needham, Brookline or Newton.