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gottaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 06:48 PM
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1. I saw that this morning
Edited on Wed Oct-22-03 06:49 PM by gottaB
It seemed kind of goofy to me. Was it just the stupid namess they chose? What were their basic criteria? A lot of it seemed to be based on neighborhood, and that would be reasonable from a traditional sociological viewpoint. However, there have been a lot of changes in the U.S. in the past thirty years, lots of mobility spatially and otherwise. So how does that factor into their assumptions?

Really, what goes into something like "Young Digerati"? It implies technological literacy, but is really just like access to high speed net and the means to afford it? And recent migrations of college-educated white professionals back to urban centers--well, there are a lot of other correlations and factors to consider, such as children or the inflation of real-estate prices in certain areas and so on. I doubt their demographic holds across all cities equally.

Hmm. Curious.
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