There ' s a weird assumption we have that just living in a coastal area makes you out of touch . With whom ? Poor people ? NYC has plenty of poor people . I live in D . C . Tell me , how exactly are all the poor black people in Anacostia doing ? Surely , after living in the bluest blue place in the country they ' re no longer poor . Surely Democrats have picked up their most loyal voting bloc and put them back on their feet . Don ' t give me this shit about how citydwelling white elite lattesippers are ' in touch ' with poor people . I grew up in Chicago . When you live in a city you ' re conditioned to ignore poor people . They ' re on the street corners , they ' re on the trains , and you learn to don ' t look at them or give them money . You ignore them until they go away . Case in point a bunch of poor black kids massacre each other every weekend in Baltimore , DC , and Chicago , and you don ' t even blink an eye . This shit doesn ' t even show up in the city newspapers . But some white kids get shot , it ' s a fucking crisis and you all stand around screaming that it ' s entirely the fault of white gun owners for having AR 15 s and suddenly we need new laws . Is that your idea of being intouch with poor people ? So what about all the blackonblack violence ? Ignore it , it ' ll go away . How about gentrification . New York City is one of the most expensive places on the planet to live . Yet just a few decades ago it had a huge poor population in places like Harlem . Well guess what you see when you walk through Harlem now street after street of empty public housing projects , because they aren ' t even letting poor people move into them anymore , and are waiting to knock them down and replace them with expensive highend condos . All the poor people they were evicted and kicked down the road to New Jersey , Delaware , or Connecticut . Again , the urban elite solution to poor people was to ignore them until they went away . And ironically , this isn ' t even about poor whites . This is just urban attitudes towards poor blacks arguably in worse shape as demographics go , which still show up to vote for Democrats by 90 % margins , even though not a single Democratic government has done fucking anything in the last four decades to improve their substandard living conditions . You all don ' t give the slightest fuck about the poor people living in your own city , voting for your own governments . You seriously are going to tell me you ' understand ' rural poor people a thousand miles away ? In fact , I can also use this to springboard onto other things you said . Urban voters celebrate diversity and aren ' t racist ? Hah , fuck you , everything I just wrote is the product of the institutionally racist statusquo that every white 20 year old living in Adams Morgan is okay with . ' Those people ' live over ' there ' and that ' s where they belong . As soon as poor blacks start moving in to other neighborhoods , all these openminded totallynotracists pack their shit and leave . At least people on the right tend to own their latent racism and xenophobia . Urban liberals are hypocrites and liars about it and will jerk their dicks raw about how totallynotracist they are , while living in cities that are some of most places thatisinteresting . c o m wordpresswpcontentuploads 201210 racialsegregationchicago . jpg the .