So I grew up between East Liberty and Highland Park..
You local yinzers are familiar with those city neighborhoods.
during the 70's as I attended school at Sacred Heart, Central Catholic, and then Peabody High (now Obama Academy), East Liberty was a downtrodden, unsafe, ghetto, with stores and businesses either boarded up or not very nice..Every day to go to school I had to walk through this area. Most days there were no issues, but on many occasions we had to deal with bums, drug addicts, and thugs trying to take our lunch money, just to go to or get home from school. It was basically an inner city mess.
Recently that area has has a renewal and it is now a neighborhood of choice, with new construction, condo's, buildings, small and major businesses (ie.Google) setting up shop there. As a kid/teenager growing up there I would of laughed very hard at anybody that told me that area would be so nice today. Its changed so much, I don't recognize the "old neighborhood" when I go back home.
My point is this...Im very concerned that if the progressives are elected, areas all across the country that share the same story of urban renewal will revert back to what once was.
Obviously, this would not be go for East Libertarians or America is general.