[Dems2008] Re: Chicago

"melting pot?" That is so 60s. The diversity that has emerged in
this country in the last 20-30 years effects more a "tossed salad"
than that old Poli Sci 101 'melting pot' analogy.

Cat, you really need to contemporize. This is not the 1960s anymore

--- In Dems2008@yahoogroups.com, catpurdy@... wrote:
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> "Chicago politicians are notoriously crooked, I use to live in
Chicago.  And
> it is SO polarized.  It is definitely no melting pot. "
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> This is where the whole subject started and you know it.
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> The original poster wasn't criticizing Chicago, but Chicago
politics, which
> Obama was embroiled in deeply.
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> Cat, Earth to Cat, here is what the "original poster" actually
cited
> (you still don't have that braille computer monitor, do you?)
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> --- In Dems2008@yahoogroups.com, kay noeth <kaynoeth@> wrote:
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> > those who live there live in very shoddy housing and with lots of
> povery and rats. It is a very polarized city - each ethnic group
lives
> in its own little hood and neither like the other. Some of the
housing
> projects were bulldozed down when the land became valuable, and the
> people living in them were displaced-real caring govt. corruption
is
> not the exception. Crime, yea, like every other big city. Lots of
> rats .... lots of concrete, except for the lake front green is the
> exception. I lived there and worked there for about 9 months ....
good
> job but I escaped that concrete jungles as soon as I could. - like
DC
> and Atlantic City, it puts on a good face to the tourists, but
don't
> look behind the scenes. The middle class lives outside of Chicago.
In
> the burbs. Chicago thinks its the center of the universe. I'm
> certainly glad it is not.
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