Some Thoughts on Houston's Wards
As the "near Northside's" kinda racist name shows, Houstonians run and hide from a designation that gives many pride
No, the Near Northside was not established in 1862. To say so is no more or less ridiculous than the Tampico Heights fiasco of a couple of years ago.
Do we really believe that so far back as 1862, Houston had necessity of a “near” qualifier to a neighborhood called “the Northside?” As opposed to what? Huntsville?
No, of course it didn’t — there would be …
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