September 17, 2010 | 1:20 PM | By

Borderstan on Milloy and “myopic twits”

FILED UNDER: Elections, 2010 Elections, Fenty, Gentrification

Remember that incendiary Milloy column? Borderstan gets it:

Yes, I guess Milloy was referring to this area of the city, to Logan Circle and U Street and the 14th Street corridor. We are, I suppose, the stereotype, of all things suspicious to Milloy. We have dog parks (two of them) and we have bike lanes (lots of them). “Chic eateries” and users of “social networks” abound…

On Tuesday, we collectively did as he suspects: Voters in precincts here gave Fenty 70 to 80% of the vote. But, while we supported him here, I don’t think you’d find many people here who would disagree that Fenty was the cause of many of his own problems….

None of this is meant to downplay the serious problems facing Washingtonians in other parts of the city, too many of them in dire economic circumstances. But wishing these newcomers would go away will do nothing to solve the horribly high rates of unemployment in DC.

I would also suggest—strongly—that many of my new neighbors make an effort to understand DC’s history. Only by doing so can you understand Milloy’s column and the frustrations he expressed.

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  • http://www.borderstan.com Borderstan

    Thanks for the shout out and the link. Was just trying to show that our neighborhood is a whole more [good] than Milloy might think.