where in Iowa

**Angie** · 05-22-2009, 03:57 PM

This thread is pretty unnecessary and potentially offensive, so it's going to be kept on a VERY short leash. One and only warning.

**egami** · 05-22-2009, 03:57 PM

Originally Posted by CylentButDeadly

I have a feeling there could be a lot of racial undertones in this thread.

I don't know, I wouldn't say there is much of an undertone in 'redneck' and 'white trash'.

**CylentButDeadly** · 05-22-2009, 03:57 PM

Originally Posted by Al_4_State

east side of Des Moines proper.

No way. Roughly the area between North HS and Drake.

**GaryJohnson** · 05-22-2009, 03:58 PM

Originally Posted by egami

I don't know, I wouldn't say there is much of an undertone in 'redneck' and 'white trash'.

But there is in "ghetto."

**egami** · 05-22-2009, 04:00 PM

Originally Posted by GaryJohnson

But there is in "ghetto."

Hate speech.

**swarthmoreCY** · 05-22-2009, 04:02 PM

I have heard portions of Davenport are not too lovely. I have been to many places in Iowa that are struggling economically, but nothing I would compare to my time living in STL or Philly.

**GaryJohnson** · 05-22-2009, 04:03 PM

Hate speech? Why do you hate speech? Doesn't that make being a radio personality-ish type person rather difficult?

**Al_4_State** · 05-22-2009, 04:03 PM

Originally Posted by CylentButDeadly

No way. Roughly the area between North HS and Drake.

That's pretty rough, but I think the neighborhoods south of the fairgrounds are in worse shape.

**capitalcityguy** · 05-22-2009, 04:08 PM

I feel like this thread brings a Jerry Springer level of discussion to CF. This is certainly not the impression I'd want to give someone who may be discovering the forum for the first time.

On the other hand, people that have actually witnessed and understand what a ghetto is might get a good chuckle at the naïveté of some here that think they know what a ghetto looks like.

HINT: working poor, or blue collar neighborhoods are only ghettos to the sheltered who have never left the state of Iowa.

Can we shut down this embarassment of a thread?

**Al_4_State** · 05-22-2009, 04:10 PM

Originally Posted by capitalcityguy

I feel like this thread brings a Jerry Springer level of discussion to CF. This is certainly not the impression I'd want to give someone who may be discovering the forum for the first time.

On the other hand, people that have actually witnessed and understand what a ghetto is might get a good chuckle at the naïveté of some here that think they know what a ghetto looks like.

HINT: working poor, or blue collar neighborhoods are only ghettos to the sheltered who have never left the state of Iowa.

Can we shut down this embarassment of a thread?

Depends on what you mean by ghetto. There are small towns in Iowa just as impoverished and drug addled as anywhere in any major city. Less violent, but that's about it.

**LeSchmick** · 05-22-2009, 04:12 PM

Originally Posted by capitalcityguy

I feel like this thread brings a Jerry Springer level of discussion to CF. This is certainly not the impression I'd want to give someone who may be discovering the forum for the first time.

On the other hand, people that have actually witnessed and understand what a ghetto is might get a good chuckle at the naïveté of some here that think they know what a ghetto looks like.

HINT: working poor, or blue collar neighborhoods are only ghettos to the sheltered who have never left the state of Iowa.

Can we shut down this embarassment of a thread?

Whoa, chill out their buddy. Don't get so worked up over an internet forum thread.

**cmoneyr** · 05-22-2009, 04:13 PM

Originally Posted by LeSchmick

Whoa, chill out their buddy. Don't get so worked up over an internet forum thread.

Srs bsns.

**capitalcityguy** · 05-22-2009, 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by LeSchmick

Whoa, chill out their buddy. Don't get so worked up over an internet forum thread.

What do you consider worked up? It seems your bar is quite low.

calling out bad taste, poor form, is hardly "worked up'>

**isuforlife** · 05-22-2009, 04:22 PM

none in southwest Iowa , but across the river in Nebbyland lots of them ,mmmmmmmmmmaybe the whole state

**capitalcityguy** · 05-22-2009, 04:27 PM

Originally Posted by Al_4_State

Depends on what you mean by ghetto. There are small towns in Iowa just as impoverished and drug addled as anywhere in any major city. Less violent, but that's about it.

That is part of my point. We don't have to define it. It has already been done. Per dictionary.com

–noun, plural -tos, -toes.
1.
a section of a city, esp. a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships.
2.
(formerly, in most European countries) a section of a city in which all Jews were required to live.
3.
a section predominantly inhabited by Jews.
4.
any mode of living, working, etc., that results from stereotyping or biased treatment: job ghettos for women; ghettos for the elderly.

or check out wiki.