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On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:16:24 -0400, HK wrote:

I am not saying there are no problems. But when you say "segregated,"
to what are you referring?

There are "white" places and there are "black" places with very little
interaction between them. In Chuck county there are also barrios
springing up where latino gangs rule the neighborhood.
One of my nieces lives in Camp Springs and her neighbor was shot dead
for "dissing" a black guy. The PG cops are baffled since "nobody saw
nothing" and they are not really trying very hard to find much
themselves. They are resigned to the fact that he should not have been
on that corner. It was a gang corner. Too bad that was also a Metro
stop.

I see a multitude of skin colors and ethnicity in the neighborhoods we
go to to visit friends...white, black, asian, latino, whatever. If there
are "barrios" in Charles County, they are being set up by choice, not
because latinos are told to live there or only allowed to live there.

Camp Springs is not southern Maryland. I drive through PG County
frequently, and in fact, shop at a few stores there we don't have down
here. I see lots of faces of all colors there. PG County *is* the
country nearest the district to which many black families "emigrated"
when they could afford to leave DC.

Northern Virginia, btw, is plagued with gangs.