Southern Discomfort
“The product is not concrete unless all four of these ingredients are present. A mixture of cement, sand, and water, without coarse aggregate, is not concrete but mortar or grout. Never fall into the common error of calling a concrete wall or floor a cement wall or floor. There is no such thing as a cement wall or floor." As in a lot of small southern towns that accreted around a market center in more spacious times, blacks and whites don't live as rigidly segregated in Dobbs as they seem to do ...in more urban areas. We do have an all-white wealthy section near the river and there is an all-black section over to the east—shabby old Darkside, in our case—where a few black professionals have chosen out of sentiment or pride to build on ground that had been in their families for several generations.
For everything in between these two extremes, you might have patches of fine houses facing each other, with backyards that touch the backyards of quite modest dwellings on the next street over, then a string of trashy shanties the next street after that.MoreLess
For everything in between these two extremes, you might have patches of fine houses facing each other, with backyards that touch the backyards of quite modest dwellings on the next street over, then a string of trashy shanties the next street after that.MoreLess
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