Bernie Sanders: White People Don't Know What It's Like To Live 'In The Ghetto'

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74. In some older Eastern cities this may be true.

On the other hand, it's often not true even there. A lot of formerly middle class areas in, say, Baltimore MD (Fells Point in the early '70s) or Patterson NJ, show intergenerational poverty. If there are apts., then they're formerly middle class or working class. But there, as in much of Houston, the really poor areas have some apts. and some free-standing houses. Some houses were converted, upping the density, but not a lot.

In Houston some of the houses are postage-stamp sized.


BTW, there are such areas in some cities that are "white," just not very many are left because of upward mobility. It pays to remember that "ghetto" is an Italian word and referred to what might be judged the "Jewish quarter" in other cities. Say, Jerusalem under Arab rule or in Prague (Jozefuv, there). In the US it originally referred to areas that weren't quite white but weren't African-American. Jewish, Italian, etc. Baltimore's Greektown up on Highland or Little Italy fit the bill for those.

The trailer park wouldn't be a ghetto. Just poor and neglected.