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June 14, 2012

"Some subset of the Stuff White People Like (SWPL) Bobos lost their grip on irony and have fallen into unconscious self-parody."

Pedestrians [are] stalled in the crosswalk trying to decide whether to have sushi or chimichangas for dinner. Others carry yoga mats, bags of farmers’ market produce, books, CDs, double espressos and all the other stuff it’s hard to find in surrounding Berkshire Mountain villages….
We also hear from a local NPR (!) director that: Great Barrington is a small, manageable, economically and ethnically mixed town. Great Barrington turned out to be deplorably un-diverse, the NPR guy notwithstanding. The percentages of white-black-Hispanic are 84.9-2.6-7.7. -- Places White People Like / Derbyshire

Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 14, 2012 10:28 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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