tooblue
07-17-2015, 02:31 PM
Here's the map referenced in the article:
http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap/index.html
Here's the link to the article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/16/how-railroads-highways-and-other-man-made-lines-racially-divide-americas-cities/?hpid=z1
Like many metaphors, "the other side of the tracks" was originally a literal epithet. Blacks were often historically restricted to neighborhoods separated from whites by railroads, turning the tracks into iron barriers of race and class.
http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap/index.html
Here's the link to the article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/16/how-railroads-highways-and-other-man-made-lines-racially-divide-americas-cities/?hpid=z1
Like many metaphors, "the other side of the tracks" was originally a literal epithet. Blacks were often historically restricted to neighborhoods separated from whites by railroads, turning the tracks into iron barriers of race and class.