Tag: salad bowl suburbia

I wrote Why Charlotte’s East Side is known as the ‘Salad Bowl Community’ for The Charlotte Observer. The story is about what immigrants do with when white flight leaves areas impoverished and abandoned. There was a lot of other components that I wished I could’ve incorporated, like the gentrifying of the Black Belmont neighborhood, especially after some Black Charlotteans were displaced in the 60’s and 70’s because of the urban renewal program. The wealth discrepancy among whites and Blacks and …