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[geekchick]

This pretty much matches up with my impressions of Dominion Valley, which is just up the road a bit from my office (and it's not terribly different from a lot of other developments in the western suburbs):

Perilla, who does vote, moved to Dominion Valley from a house in Manassas, which is in the older, more developed part of the region, a diverse area where Mexican and Central American immigrants have settled and where neighborhoods of single-family homes might be adjacent to townhouses and apartments. Like the Lechners, she and her family moved in part because the old neighborhood was changing.

"It sounds awful," Perilla said, "but it was turning into a more working-class neighborhood. More pickups -- not that there's anything wrong with that. . . . There were problems we didn't want to deal with -- at least on a personal level."

The Lechners were of a similar mind. They liked the diversity of their Germantown neighborhood, they said, but they did not want to subject their children to what they perceived as racial conflicts and other problems they associated with nearby government-subsidized housing.

We like diversity...unless it means we have to live next door to people who drive pickups rather than Lexus SUVs and don't look like us. And we like to keep up on pressing political issues of the day, like whether or not jeans can be worn in the country club.

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[brian1789.livejournal.com]

"Some of my best friends drive pickups..."

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

I wonder what they'd do in my neighborhood, with the Chinese market up the block and the two Latino grocery stores within a half mile radius and the Salvadorean restaurant and the bar with the best barbecue place around back.

[geekchick]

I'd imagine they'd do pretty much what they did here: pick up and move to a gated community someplace.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you're right. I'd rather have the diversity, I think. Although a little more space in the house might be nice.

[thunderbunny3.livejournal.com]

"Hey, I like diversity, so long as it's from people who are white Anglo-Saxon Protestants who vote Republican, think just like me, hate those damned imigrants and support protecting marriage from those degenerate homosexuals. I'm not racist, but colored people just make me nervous and I'm worried about they're influence on my children's morality and values."

*vomits*