VOX: The sneaky language today's politicians use to get away with racism and sexism

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Urban and Inner city can be difficult

since especially urban is also used by specialists. These days for example, we speak of the urban core of San Diego, This urban core is not just the "inner city."

The rest are extremely obvious to my trained ear, but I read urban core so often in write ups from city and county it is not even funny. They mean also areas like the revitalized downtown.

That said, without core, you betcha that is exactly what they mean.

Middle class was one I became very aware as I observed the Occupy San Diego folk and the class and race divide that you could see.