Crass commercial bias is also involved when both blockbusting realtors and redlining credit providers make segregation almost inevitable. When blacks create and flock to a black suburb, as they have in Prince Georges County Maryland, adjacent to Washington, DC, it appears to be more culture than anything else. Many of these suburbanites have enough money to live in integrated suburbs, but choose not to, largely, I think, because they are more comfortable living among other blacks. Cultural differences in the workplace and the real or perceived biases of some of the whites at work produce this reaction. Isolation and the continual infliction of damage on poor people create cultural traits that tend to increase the isolation of the poor from the rest of us.
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