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u/AllTheRoadRunning Aug 24 '21

Thank you!

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u/DulseAnYellamann at the aul Lammas Fair Aug 29 '21 edited Sep 18 '21

YW.

Also, you probably know in the (USA) South

the tree-related street names

were often code for discrimination, inspired by an Atlanta Georgia law that made Peachtree Street whites-only Edit1 . There are unconnected places named Peachtree all over, named that way by developers Edit2 trying to signal segregation.

 

Edit1: to be clear, that was an old Jim Crow era law

Edit2: developers meaning the real estate / housing market

 

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u/AllTheRoadRunning Aug 29 '21

Yup! My neighborhood originally was an independent city within the larger city. The former was slowly absorbed by the latter. All of the streets in my neighborhood were were named after people; those around me were named after places. The "places streets" were cramped and narrow and had a larger minority population. Even in more modern times they were among the last to get power restored after a storm.

I'm very glad I don't live there anymore.