... behind. The suburban poor outnumbered their inner-city counterparts for the ... you also see increases in suburban poverty." Nationally, the poverty rate ... contributing to an increase in suburban poverty: Suburbs are adding people ... Recent immigrants are increasingly bypassing cities and moving directly to suburbs...report said. "This 'tipping' of poor populations to the suburbs represents...

... only fifty-seven voting members. Black city councillor Carroll Swain observed ruefully, ...well-connected society. And even a poorly connected individual may derive some of... continues to strike a powerful inner chord in the American psyche.... over the preceding ten years outnumbered those who thought people had ...of possible explanations -- from overwork to suburban sprawl, from the welfare state ...

William Blake Jr. wrote: There's more. The suburb is the city now. As after World War Two America had a great economic advantage over most of ... the rest of society that lives in society. So all the institutions of an advanced city have to be transplanted to the wierd new cities. There is an disturbing trend away from property ownership and free public life to their opposites. ...

Suburbs only work with cheap gas. When the price of gas goes up to $5.00/gal everyone will return to the city. Bret Cahill

The suburb with greatest percentage of poor, and the city with greatest percentage of poor, are in good-ole-boy Republican states of Texas and Ohio. The suburb with lowest percentage of poor, and the city with lowest percentage of poor, are in the liberal Iowa and California. Conservatives by definition want to conserve disparity of wealth. Bret Cahill

"William Blake Jr." <ibshambat@hotmail.com> wrote in news:1165480325.525010.197090@n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com: There's more. The suburb with greatest percentage of proven library wankers is Alexandria, VA. WTF did your whines have to do with romance, buddhism or philosophy, Scumbat? -- Cujo - The Official Overseer of Kooks and Trolls in dfw.*, alt.paranormal, alt....