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What Hyde Park Tells Us About Obama

Lefty enclave is racially mixed, but lofty

By Jonas Oransky,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 9, 2008 7:37 PM CDT

(Newser) – "It is the most racially integrated neighborhood in the nation's most racially segregated city," Andrew Ferguson writes in the Weekly Standard of the area in south Chicago Barack Obama calls home. It's a college town, a lefty enclave where the moneyed mix with...   Read full story »

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