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Originally Posted by donquixote99
These summer parks are an ad-hoc form of 'intentional community,' it would seem. That's the real point--having a place where it's 'your kind of people,' and ONLY your kind of people.
There was one summer--I was 18 or 19--when a friend and I hung with some young guys who were part of such a community in Northern Indiana--about 60 miles or so from Chicago. The residents were white folks, many from the far south side of Chicago. There was block-busting going on in those days, and the guys had stories of violently 'defending' their Chicago neighborhood against same.
The stories were surely bragging and BS, except for whatever part wasn't. But I'm more than certain what would have happened if some folks had tried to 'integrate' the campground....
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Oh, no Don. Those neighborhoods weren't abandoned because white folks refused to live with "negroes" in their close proximity. NO! Why that would be racist and Lord knows we are not racist and never have been! The unions, the tree huggers and the gays forced them out. Didn't you get the memo?
