• Posadas [he/him, they/them]
    hexagon
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    1 year ago

    Based on nothing except the short hand legacy of long island, I imagine this has something to do with segregation followed by redlining and then whatever neo-redlining has been going on in the 21st century.

    Why do redlining when you can just keep doing de facto segregation.

    https://projects.newsday.com/long-island/segregation-real-estate-history/#nd-promo

    • darkmode [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      you're right - I had even read most of that article too awhile ago. I just completely forgot about it (the article) at the time of the comment