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DING DING DING DING. This is precisely why a lot of people of color bristle so much @ the "let's hear these people out" takes.

The right spent the better part of the past 50 years pillaring the black community for struggling with these things. Now we need to listen?

The difference is most apparent in discussion of current opiate problem vs. crack cocaine a generation ago. Hard not to see race as key diff

Excellent point. Same as reaction to opioid crises versus crack.

Traditional idealization of rural life as more authentic than urban, but happens in other industrial nations as well

This is a good and thought provoking comment

had to look up valorize - damned fine word, sir

Great points.

"Would never have" is an odd phrasing there in the wrong tense. This happens and many (most?) conservatives, in fact, do the exact opposite.

btw, Peoria is 29.6% AfAm as of the 2010 census

many amenities are convenient to them. Big boomerang effect taking part in Baltimore, but only in a few neighborhoods.

As someone from a dysfunctional rural area that lives in a city I couldn't agree more. Quality of life is dramatically different.

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to pay for private school. Once the kids are out of the house and out of college, empty nesters boomerang back to parts of the city where...

I always thought of it as people that start families want to leave the city because of the lack of good public schools or the hesitance...