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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-26-09 08:36 PM
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5. To be fair to the OP, I hadn't heard the practice called "Blockbusting'
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  -Ever hear of Blockbusting?! How horrible! Lucky Luciano  Jul-26-09 08:31 PM   #0 
  - Yes, I had heard that real estate brokers had a part in white flight  Liberal_in_LA   Jul-26-09 08:33 PM   #1 
  - Long before real estate people  Tangerine LaBamba   Jul-26-09 08:35 PM   #3 
  - Welcome to the twentieth century -  Tangerine LaBamba   Jul-26-09 08:34 PM   #2 
  - To be fair to the OP, I hadn't heard the practice called "Blockbusting'  Liberal_in_LA   Jul-26-09 08:36 PM   #5 
  - Welcome to the twentieth century -  Tangerine LaBamba   Jul-26-09 08:37 PM   #7 
     - Seriously...I've been in the 20th century just as long as you have. Seriously!  Liberal_in_LA   Jul-26-09 08:40 PM   #10 
     - I wouldn't be surprised if people under 30 or 35 hadn't heard of blockuting  rurallib   Jul-26-09 08:46 PM   # 
  - Well, aren't you just wonderful and perfect.  Lucky Luciano   Jul-26-09 08:37 PM   #6 
  - lol n/t  Liberal_in_LA   Jul-26-09 08:38 PM   #8 
  - Psssssssst -  Tangerine LaBamba   Jul-26-09 08:38 PM   #9 
  - You are a bit of an asshole.  Liberal_in_LA   Jul-26-09 08:40 PM   # 
  - Sorry - that is a fair typo - the "o" is next to the "i"  Lucky Luciano   Jul-26-09 08:40 PM   #11 
  - Quick  realisticphish   Jul-26-09 08:46 PM   #15 
     - It's all Calvin's fault.  rug   Jul-26-09 09:18 PM   #23 
        - That's pro-tiger nonsense  realisticphish   Jul-26-09 09:19 PM   #24 
           - Hobbes was a bit of a propagandist too.  rug   Jul-26-09 09:21 PM   #25 
              - bleech  realisticphish   Jul-26-09 09:23 PM   #27 
  - I guess this Tangerine person is having a bad day. Looking for someone to feel superior to.  Liberal_in_LA   Jul-26-09 08:43 PM   #12 
  - I know - haha...it has no idea who it is up against.  Lucky Luciano   Jul-26-09 08:44 PM   #13 
  - a masterpiece  noiretextatique   Jul-27-09 12:08 PM   #32 
  - I learned about from All In The Family, Miss Smarty-Pants Book-learnin' Lady  Hassin Bin Sober   Jul-26-09 09:32 PM   #30 
  - Good thing it's not about race....  BlooInBloo   Jul-26-09 08:36 PM   #4 
  - While you are at it you may want to read up on "red lining" -  DURHAM D   Jul-26-09 08:45 PM   #14 
  - Sigh. We're so creative...  BlooInBloo   Jul-26-09 09:23 PM   #28 
  - I was aware of that practice - but not the term - but did see it today  Lucky Luciano   Jul-26-09 09:25 PM   #29 
  - Mexican must be the new Black  thelordofhell   Jul-26-09 08:55 PM   #16 
  - Yes, it is old. Blockbusting:  elocs   Jul-26-09 08:56 PM   #17 
  - Do you remember the best selling book (fiction) called Peaceable Lane on this subject.  DURHAM D   Jul-26-09 09:16 PM   #22 
  - Blockbusting worked particularly well in the late '60s after the race riots  FarCenter   Jul-26-09 09:01 PM   #18 
  - Robert Moses had a lot more to do with the destruction of the South Bronx than blockbusting did  Stevenmarc   Jul-26-09 09:01 PM   #19 
  - Cross Bronx Expressway.  rug   Jul-26-09 09:05 PM   #21 
  - I hadn't heard of it. And I've heard of all kinds of stuff. nt  rrneck   Jul-26-09 09:03 PM   #20 
  - And interstates deliberately constructed through black neighborhoods:  Lars39   Jul-26-09 09:21 PM   #26 
  - Writer/Producer Norman Lear covered Blockbusting on an episode of "All in the Family"...  A HERETIC I AM   Jul-26-09 09:34 PM   #31 
  - Note: Blockbusting is illegal in real estate and any agent caught  mmonk   Jul-27-09 12:41 PM   #33 
 

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