I'm always amazed at these geographies. I guess the good consistent intellectual leftist knows how to speak to his colleagues. In the right, right on, languages.
I'm always amazed at how Bethesda gets in the District. What is up with
white
folks doing that?
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We got this thing called a metropolitan region. These things are defined in the sense of being named by their center, in this case "D.C." If I said I was in the "Maryland region," that wouldn't be very informative. I could be in the lower Chesapeake Bay, on the District border in Bladensburg, in Charm City (Baltimore), etc. "DC" is the area. "The District" is the city proper, though we also call it "downtown" or, when in the company of friends rather than internet mailing lists, "Chocolate City."
It's different from, say, New York. If you lived in Hoboken, you wouldn't say you lived in New York City, even though you were cheek-by-jowl with it and might go there every day.
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Neighborhoods matter. Kind of like solidarity and which side are you on and
whether you have to reach out and touch someone so as to be down with
consistent
revolutions.
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Touching, but backwards. Neighborhoods bespeak segregation. The region is the collective.
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South of the park and north of, lets say 16th street, you do get a lot of
folks
coming up to bethesda to do culinary arts for minimum wage.
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16th St & "the park" run north-south, so "north of" makes no sense in those contexts. You mean east of the park. East of 16th would be wrong, since lots of people west of 16th do those minimum wage jobs.
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but they speak different languages.
right on indeed. so lets send our daughters.
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Oh please.
mbs