[lbo-talk] Urban wealth/ethnic stratification

[B.]

Excellent question. Dallas is the same way. North
d\Dallas = posh and boozhie. South Dallas is, in
Dallasites' minds' at least, Dante's Inferno. Scary,
scary place. Roll up your windows & lock your doors,
kids -- we're entering SOUTH DALLAS.

Similar in Austin, but with East Austin being the
scary, frightening place. And again, North Austin and
the northern satellite towns of Austin like
Pflugerville are the posh retreats, as in Dallas with
its Plano and Frisco areas. But basically in Austin
and Dallas, the eastside is where it's more working
class and also more ethnically mixed, which means it's
probably something like 40% Latino, 40% anglo, 17%
African-American, & the remainder "other."

-B.

tully wrote:

"I've wondered why the cities I'm familiar with here
on the US east coast have the elite neighborhoods in
the west and north and the working class in the south
and east."