(Post publishing note: Dualism is where there are major differences in observable aspects of localities in close proximity)
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Dualism in
Washington D.C.
There are 2
main assumptions that come with dualism in the Washington metropolitan area[1]:
the first being that people believe that the inner-city has the largest
percentage of people in poverty (according to urban landuse models, such as the Burgess or Hoyt models); although the percentage of the total
population that is poor is 4 times higher than in the surrounding suburbs, the
suburbs collectively had 61% of the area’s people in poverty, and of those,
53.8% of the people in poverty lived outside the beltway; thus the poverty is
mostly concentrated in the suburbs, although there is a higher concentration of
people in poverty in the D.C. area. The second assumption is that poverty is
getting worse in the area; however the number of people in poverty has actually
fallen by 10,000 between the years of 1980 and 1990.