I agree, not a race thing as much a cultural issue. Hard to bring the inner city attitude into a quiet neighborbood in the burbs.
Years ago Cone Mills was huge in this area, many milltowns, small wood houses, but decent middle class neighborhoods. When the mills left for overseas, slowly the people left looking for jobs, except many older retired stayed. I use to drive, play and date girls from these areas. I wouldn't dare drive through today, like a inner city ghetto, many illegal mexican gangs fighting black gangs. It really got bad 2 years ago. Most these houses can now be bought for 10K. The last time I went through I stopped at an intersection and a group of blacks on the corner cussed me out, walked over kicked my truck..."white MF'er what you doing here. I actually got pulled by a cop two blocks away wanting to know what I was doing here. He kindly told me to get out and stay out unless I want to get killed.
The sad thing is the retired elderly that got trapped there. They lost all their equity, but most just wanted to die there. They're constantly robbed, killed, etc.. Several churches worked to relocate many.
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