Talk:South Boston, Massachusetts
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[edit] Who the fuck is Eugene F. Lally?
And why does he keep adding his self promotion to this page?
Gentlemen: This is not self promotion, it's history. My nuns from St Augustine's in South Boston would wonder about your language. I am E. Lally and I grew up in S. Boston, went to Northeastern U. then worked at JPL/Caltec in Pasadena and became a world known Rocket Scientist etc. at the start of the space race. I was a friend of Krafft Ehricke a german Rocket scientist among others. I conceived many of the original space missions to the planets as the concepts were presented in the 60s at American Rocket Society meetings. All my cousins living in Southie wonder why I am not shown on the S. Boston page so I am just trying to update the History of the great S. Boston. I visited there last month and was asked again. I have a web site www.lallyphotography.com since currently I work in archaeology and photography and write for magazines etc. and lecture. The bio on that site may help you understand the scope of my work.
Regards:
E. Lally
I also grew up in south boston. I went to the Bigelow School down the street. Lived there for over forty years. I never heard of you. My cousins in Southie never heard of you. I asked a couple of politicians in Southie if they heard of you. They didn't. You are no more a famous person from Southie than i am. Get over it. BTW, saw your page and nothing indicates that you should get any mention on the Southie page. You seem like a Californian.
[edit] Changing population
Even though South Boston has gay and lesbians to say that it boasts a "large number" is suspect. Considering the lawsuit to keep gays and lesbians out of the St Patrick's Day parade it is not known as a neighborhood friendly to GBLT people. The name South Boston is often confused with the South End which has a large gay and lesbian population. The other Boston neighborhood with a large gay and lesbian population is Jamaica Plain.
Parts of South Boston are undergoing gentrification. This is especially true of the City Point area. Other areas such as the public housing projects have changed from predominately white to having more racially integrated populations. Dubhdara 14:51, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
Tis' a shame indeed.
More upper class Irish Americans are beginning to move to South Boston, that's about it. 75.3.4.54 03:27, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Gays and Lesbians were not banned from the St. Patrick's Day Parade. The organization GLIB was denied participation in this parade which now privately run through fundraising efforts of South Boston residents. Gays and Lesbians as far as I know are welcome to march in the parade representing something other than who they prefer to have sex with and I'm certain that they do.--Connorsm2588 21:44, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] demographics
Sorry, but the above observation is quite untrue.
Having been born, raised and schooled in South Boston (Bigelow School, PF Gavin) I can assure you that Southie has large numbers of Polish-Americans (Andrew Square), Lithuanian-Americans (E Street) and Italian-Americans (all over the place).
The projects are far more racially diversified with both Hispanic, Asian and African-Americans moving in. A simple walk down West Broadway with your eyes open will show you that.
What is untrue? The numbers from the US Census are accurate. Why remove links to it?
Now if you registered and had a user page instead of posting anonymously, we could have a discussion. Dubhdara 02:41, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
- These ethnic groups are unnotable. South Boston is notable for the Irish. No one neighborhood page makes a point of listing every ethnic group represented in the community. South Boston is notable as a Irish community.
- 75.3.4.54 01:21, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Well, I don't know if you've ever lived there. As I wrote, I have. While Southie is is "notable" as an Irish-American community, Andrew Square has a "notable" Polish-American population and E Street and West Broadway (where the Lithuanian Club is located) has a "notable" Lithuanian-American community. And, the black, yellow and brown faces that I see on West Broadway are "notable". The Mexican restaurant on Dorchester Street (across from Magoo's) is "notable". The Vietnamese / Chinese take out places along West Broadway are "notable".
Wake up and smell the kung-po. The public housing projects are mostly non-white and non-Irish. Southie has changed, is changing and will keep changing. Why do you keep removing links to facts? And being a born and bred South Bostonian I'm proud of my neighborhood. And I have no problem in writing about how it's changing. What the articles on other neighborhoods list is the business of their authors.
Please stop removing factual material from the article. Dubhdara 02:41, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Some would argue that the only true residents of Southie are Irish Catholic. 75.3.4.54 01:40, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] not verified info on public housing
Concerning the racial make-up of the residents in South Boston's public housing: Since the 1940s it has not been completely white. When I went to school in Southie in the fifties and sixties I had African-American classmates who lived in the projects. Court ordered integration began in the seventies.
How do you prove that the public housing is still predominately "Irish-American" when other "-Americans" live there? "Italian-", "Polish-" and "Lithuanian-" Americans have always made up a large part of Southie's population. Dubhdara 05:53, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
It's quite amazing that some folks don't know the difference between the South End and South Boston...
The majority of people in the projects are not Irish-Americans. Not by a long shot. Nowhere does it say that statistically. Also people forget about the Italian, German, Polish, and others who make up this area of BOSTON.
