Originally posted by Nesster Don't know if it is really Forbes, but that author is out there on a right wing diatribe. Any article that starts off talking about the "leftists" who trained President Obama is off in Neverland.
However, having grown up in Texas, I remember the suburbs as having taken from the cities. For the first 5 grades in school, people worked in the cities, lived in the cities and went to school in the cities, even if they lived in "suburban" areas around the outside of the city limits. In 1965, integration came, and suddenly every suburb became its own town and its own school district, with few minority students and lots of money. Cities were just for working. The center of some cities basically emptied at night, and its more urban schools became more largely minority and impoverished. Cities started to look like donuts with a fluffy white outside and a dark, empty center.