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kleinbl00  ·  3815 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Austin Was Built To Be Segregated | Vice

    When people hear/read the word segregation they tend to automatically think "black" in the US based on our history.

Those of us who grew up in the Southwest automatically assume "white people" and "everybody else." I saw more black people in Albuquerque than I did in Austin and I see more black people in Chinatown LA than I did in Albuquerque. Native Americans? Check. Hispanics? Double check. What truly confounds the issue for Easterners is the fact that the Mexicans were there 150-200 years before the white folx (Santa Fe was founded in 1610 - that's ten years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock) and the fact that the Hispanics and the Indians actually hate each other more than they hate the white folx.

I find Austin to be squarely in Texas.

I hate Texas. But then, I was born in New Mexico. "Must hate Texas" a prerequisite for getting a driver's license. Add to that the fact that any time we wanted to do anything vaguely fun, we had to drive to Texas... because our other choices were Colorado or Arizona. Which meant twelve hours across hot, racist, cattle-filled nothing in order to get to a Sbarro.