Joe Biden can't get 100 supporters to listen to him gaslight America in blue stronghold Pittsburg.
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So I wasn't really sure where the fuck that is, looked it up.
Hazelwood green.
Hazelwood is a poor black neighborhood in the city which hasn't seen much in the way of gentrification. There's a few novel things there, like a charter school and (apparently) this, but it doesn't tend to get much traffic owing to its significant rates of crime. Nearby neighborhoods are Greenfield, which has a lot of the steel-mill working class (but is getting gentrified), Squirrel Hill (wealthy, yuppie), and Homestead (was black, is getting gentrified/mostly is already).
I didn't even really know this was happening. Pittsburgh is the only blue area for a good ways in this neck of the country, so I'd expect not just a turnout from those neighborhoods but also from surrounding areas. Rain was forecast earlier, but it isn't as much now - just cloudy. Apparently, though, this is "by design":
That's a shame, they were the best people I've known since I moved East. Always there to help if they could and made a point to include me when they knew I was alone on holidays.
In many cases, Pittsburgh's working class has either been gentrified out or left of its own volition; the city has been losing residents for a long time now, though it actually was one of the places largely unaffected by the 2008 financial crisis. Part of this, though, was that the city had already shifted its labor interests - it's a city that is largely based around financial, health care, and tech-related services in terms of what goes on here.
Most old industry has moved out to the surrounding areas, which is largely where the working classes moved out to. It used to be that neighborhoods around the city-center had more of a working-class bent - Greenfield, Lawrenceville, Southside and Millvale were white working class, East Liberty and Highland Park were black working class. That's mostly shifted thanks to gentrification; there's some scraps of white working class left in Millvale and Greenfield now, and black working class/poor are still pretty concentrated in other neighborhoods like Garfield, Hazelwood, Homewood. Slowly but surely, though, people are getting pushed out because there's not much labor demand for unskilled workers. Over in the furry section, my golden boy Louis will give you a pretty clear idea of what life's like outside the city proper.
For what it's worth, I hate life outside the city proper. Chain restaurants aren't a substitute for culture, so it's a barren suburban wasteland between the city and actual small towns that still have (had?) small businesses.
The Boomers were born too late to join the Bund, it was dissolved in 1941.
And more (useless) information - there's still a somewhat significant German-American business group that fiddles around in the city. The city attracts a surprising amount of global business, but it's (for the moment) modest enough to avoid becoming a shithole. Failed hipsters returning with their trustfunds in tatters from California, Oregon and Washington is increasingly becoming a problem, however.
