One part of me thinks that many of these battles are all about Blue State progressives attacking each other because we've lost the cultural megaphone of government power. But I was recently discussing the gentrification of Ithaca's historic African-American Southside with a friend. Apparently Ithaca is experiencing something like a tech bubble and rents have been skyrocketing and that has pushed its long time African-American community either out of the city or to its limits. The debate that is using the show as a focal point might be coming from someplace real.
