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by Broken_Hippo 2557 days ago
The very history of these neighborhoods involved race. They were built for white people wanting to live in a nice, white place. These places didn't serve "two or three generations very well" as the article states. The first generation would have been a white one. At lest part of the second generation served would have been white through inheritance. And the third generation was (is!) still recovering from the racist policies that made Levittowns possible in the first place.