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Please don't get offended, but your response is a bit disjointed. First of all the "flight" to the suburbs refers to the 1960's and 70's when the race riots started, but people have being moving to the suburbs since the beginning (as you later note). Brooklyn Heights was a suburb of NYC by the 1820's even though the best neighborhoods where still in Manhatten. You can be pro whatever you'd like, but there where specific government actions that led "people to vote with their feet".

If you think that whatever is in your environment is a product of free will then you have a lot of reading to do. There where so many reasons the government promoted "getting the people (I guess you mean white people) out to the suburbs", but promoting that exodus is one of the things that created what you call "the problems".

I might suggest the movie Roger Rabbit. The animation is great, but the sub-plot tells the tail of how industry colluded with government to destroy the trolley lines of Los Angeles. It wasn't people who thought it was a great idea to be stuck in traffic for a carton of milk.

by Thayer-D on Jun 11, 2009 8:42 am • link • report