Every area has its share of the downwardly mobile

After he leaves the White House Bush will be moving to Preston Hollow, Texas, a whites-only suburb of Dallas. Similar to other communities in the area there is a rule that non-whites, unless they are live-in servants, must leave by sundown. This gives these exclusive areas the name sundown suburbs, which aren't just around Dallas. They don't object to just blacks, but to anyone not like them. If these people can't take care of themselves (inner cities are evidence) why should we let them near us? However, there is one problem. Even some in their own community are "downwardly mobile" -- the addicted, the elderly who have exhausted finances and medical care, those who have lost jobs, the mentally ill, those leaving abusive family members, former prisoners. All social classes have these people. But sundown suburbs very intentionally do not provide services for them. No halfway houses, shelters, public housing, drug treatment facilities. Residents have clout and money to make sure it stays that way. Which means the downwardly mobile become homeless and then surrounding cities, ones not so white, have to deal with the problem. Suburbs have more people than cities and rural areas combined, yet provide less than 1/5 of the services these rejected people require. These sundown suburbs have no trouble with taxes -- as long as they are spent on themselves and not on the neighboring core cities. Such conservative isolation perpetuates racial issues.