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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
what i mean is that the old connations of those coded terms really don't make a ton of sense any more, as the demographics of the nation's major cities continue to change pretty substantially.
i don't hear the word "urban" used as code for "black" anywhere near as much as i did 20+ years ago. nowadays, "urban" is FAR more likely to mean what it originally meant: "in, relating to, or characteristic of a town or city"
and the term "inner city" just straight up isn't used as much at all these days. it seems to have been supplanted by more PC terms like "under-resourced communities" and similar such euphemisms.
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And DC was referred to as 'Chocolate city'. It's really not that any more. Suburban Prince George's County, outside DC, is now. Probably similar with Atlanta and one or two of its suburban counties.