They're not outliers. Go to almost any large American city and there is a poor area where most of the black people live, and a better off area where most of the white people live. That's America.
(a) I live just off the corner of Chicago and Austin, on a block with section 8 housing, minority-white, middle-upper-middle class. Any race, income, or crime map of Chicago should clarify what's interesting about those cross-streets. Tell me more about race and class relationships in big American cities?
(b) Your second sentence rebuts an argument I didn't make, and in fact overtly rejected. Nobody who pays any attention to the US would argue that race and class aren't tied together in the US. I certainly didn't.
(c) Ferguson and Park Slope are outliers in exactly the way I spelled out in my post. If you'd like to debate the point, I'm happy to debate it with you, but you're going to have to be more specific. As it stands, your current argument is essentially "Ferguson and Park Slope aren't outliers because the sky is blue and people have ten fingers and ten toes in both locations".
(d) I'd guess we have about 10 minutes to discuss this post before it's (thankfully) flagged off the site.
tptacek|10 years ago
(b) Your second sentence rebuts an argument I didn't make, and in fact overtly rejected. Nobody who pays any attention to the US would argue that race and class aren't tied together in the US. I certainly didn't.
(c) Ferguson and Park Slope are outliers in exactly the way I spelled out in my post. If you'd like to debate the point, I'm happy to debate it with you, but you're going to have to be more specific. As it stands, your current argument is essentially "Ferguson and Park Slope aren't outliers because the sky is blue and people have ten fingers and ten toes in both locations".
(d) I'd guess we have about 10 minutes to discuss this post before it's (thankfully) flagged off the site.
woah|10 years ago