Break up ghettos and re-settle them down South and out West

In the wake of the Chicago disruption, people will start to associate the anti-Trump forces with the rioters of Ferguson, Baltimore, and so on. There may be other large-scale disruptions in other major cities before or after the general election, which will only strengthen the association.

Once the American people see these outbreaks of violence as not just a fleeting mob that burns out quickly, and instead as planned and organized collective actions with an ideology that will sustain them toward future attacks, they will begin to want to really do something about the problem. Violence driven by an ideology is more threatening than random lashing-out. Islamic terrorism is another obvious example.

The ghettos have been festering for nearly 100 years already, and they ought to be dispersed. There's simply too dense of a concentration of disrupters, and when those disrupters join up with one another, we get street gangs or worse.

There aren't as many problems down South, where blacks are more historically rooted, and where the weather is nicer. Black and white groups co-evolved alongside each other, so neither one can easily take advantage of the other, and both sides agree to stick to their own side and leave the other side alone.

And down South, the racial dividing line is just a line, allowing each side to fan out as far as they want from the line, on their own side. Birmingham is a good example: the dividing line runs SW to NE, with blacks to the west of it and whites to the east. Blacks can move around as far as they want on the west side of the line, and whites as much as they want on the east side of it, without ever having to run into each other.

In the ghettos of the North and Midwest, blacks live in highly circumscribed neighborhoods, surrounded on all sides by white neighborhoods or natural barriers. They have no room to fan out, without running into whites. This creates a pressure cooker environment, where running into each other becomes unavoidable, and where the group that's penned in is going to resent living in what amounts to a great big prison yard. Chicago is a great example of clearly defined black enclaves surrounded by neighborhoods belonging to other races.

So one solution to draining the ghettos is to subsidize their migration back to the South, which huge numbers of blacks have already undertaken on their own over the the past couple decades, getting crowded out by soaring immigrant populations. Aside from having more room to roam, they'll be around their own people (the Black Belt) instead of getting into day-to-day encounters with other races. And since blacks lived for the longest time in the South, their communities are more rooted and stable, compared to the shaky recent foundations of life in Midwestern cities. If they don't like city life, they can choose small towns or rural areas filled with their own people, an option they don't have outside the South.

Whoever doesn't want to join the South, should be subsidized to move farther out West. That will alleviate the strain and burden back East. Right now, most cities west of the Mississippi are not shouldering their fair share of the ghetto burden. Northern and Midwestern people did not bring in the slaves hundreds of years ago, so it's not right that they should bear the brunt of ghettos today. Folks out West didn't bring in the slaves either, but if we have to have down-and-out black areas, then so should they.

Fortunately there's still lots of wide open space out West, compared to the crowded eastern half of the country. And they would still be settled so that the dividing line was a straight line, not an enclave surrounded by the host city, which would re-create the pressure cooker problem all over again. The Sun Belt is relatively more booming economically, so they'll find better job prospects than they will back in Chicago or Cleveland.

Flaky out-West types claim to embrace diversity -- now they'll get a chance to practice what they preach. They won't have to share neighborhoods with them, but they will have to get used to a "black side" of the metro area, across a dividing line that will allow each group to enjoy itself without being bothered by the other.

And of course a good number of transplants out West -- who make up an increasing share of all residents out West -- specifically chose their adoptive region in order to move away from diversity. But why should their flee-and-hide strategy be rewarded? Their home town stinks, so they'll just move away and let their fellow home towners deal with the problem? The more good people that leave, the worse the situation will get back home, as the ghetto comes to make up a larger and larger percent of the remaining population.

But hey, "I got mine, lots of luck getting yours." And "If you don't like Chicago, you too can deracinate yourself and pretend to belong in Denver."

The Western transplants will complain that they spent all that money to move away from the problem, and now we're sending the problem to find them. Hey, why should we care, when you deserted in the first place? The people you left behind are supposed to deal with the problem indefinitely, not you? I don't think so.

And "diversity-enhancing" policies are all we need to start equalizing the burden of the ghetto population. Again, they won't be moving in next door, a la Section 8 housing, but they will be moving into your metro area, and will have their own "side" to roam around, not being surrounded in a pressure cooker fashion.

For far too long, waves of white transplants have been using the Frontier and the West as a playground to pursue their inane lifestyle-striving contests, content to let the metro areas back East be plagued by ghettos. They need to start shouldering their fair share of the burden.

We'll do our best to encourage blacks to move to their homeland within the country, the Black Belt in the South. But whoever remains outside of it, must be spread out more evenly across the Northeast, Midwest, Plains, Mountains, and West Coast. None of us brought the slaves over here, so none of us has any greater claim to not be responsible for living around their descendants.