Okay, But Why Were The Suburbs Shaped By Racism?
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Red Wine & Blue
4.7 • 892 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's so much happening in politics right now. |
| 0:04.1 | So red wine and blue is here to ask, okay, but why? |
| 0:11.4 | You know, the suburbs, people fight all of their lives to get into the suburbs and have a beautiful home. |
| 0:18.6 | There will be no more low-income housing forced in to the suburbs. |
| 0:23.3 | I abandoned and took away and just rescinded the rule. |
| 0:26.9 | It's been going on for years. I've seen conflict for years. |
| 0:30.6 | So enjoy your life, ladies and gentlemen. |
| 0:33.2 | For nearly a century, the suburbs have been a cornerstone of the American dream. |
| 0:39.3 | But at the same time, some people have criticized the suburbs for being too conformist, too dependent on cars, and to be blunt, too white. |
| 0:52.3 | Remember the Stepford wives? Stefford is the family paradise. It has no crime, too white. Remember the Stefford wives? |
| 0:54.9 | Stefford is a family paradise. It has no crime, no poverty, and no pushing. |
| 1:00.1 | We know that the suburbs have been diversifying over the past few decades. And today, |
| 1:06.2 | suburban woman isn't just code for white woman, no matter how much the media tries to simplify us. |
| 1:13.7 | But there's no denying that the suburbs have excluded families who aren't white for most |
| 1:19.0 | of their history, and if we're not careful, they will again in the future. |
| 1:24.4 | So why and how did the suburbs end up so white for so long? What happened to make |
| 1:31.4 | them more diverse? And why are some people worried that we're reversing that progress? |
| 1:38.8 | The suburbs burst onto the scene of American life after World War II. Veterans were returning from the war, |
| 1:45.8 | getting married, and having kids. About 76 million of them, in fact, that baby boom is why |
| 1:52.7 | folks of that generation are now called baby boomers. All of those new families needed a place |
| 1:58.6 | to live, and combined with the new availability of |
| 2:02.2 | cars that let people move further out from city centers, that meant Americans were ready |
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