We were all looking into some posts a few weeks ago about the missing children in VA. I doubt you're remembering my comment, but I noticed that there were concentrated areas of kids missing from the Norfolk/Tidewater area and from DC Metro/NoVA (Northern Virginia). I'm sure other people noticed this too.
So obviously there are ports there in Norfolk because of the naval base. That is a largely a blue collar working class/poverty stricken area with mostly black people living there. The white people in that area usually commute in to work. NoVA is mostly upper class white, but there are a lot of international people there (refugees, immigrants, and H1B Visa workers).
The reason this stood out to me is because there are similar high population areas in Virginia that do NOT have the same high rate of missing kids. You would expect Richmond, Roanoke, Charlottesville, Lynchburg to have higher numbers of missing people than Norfolk, and similar numbers to that area tightly around the Capital, but they don't. DC Metro is should be considered more of a land port, as well, because there are a few large highways intersecting around there going to several different states and of course large and small airports.
Another thing, which maybe doesn't have anything to do with all this, but I think is interesting, is that these concentrated areas of missing people are right around where there using to be slave auctions. People would come in there at Norfolk and around the bottom of Maryland where there is a harbor and then they'd be sold to people with farms in Virginia.
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leotolstoy ago
one interesting comment he made was in response to something about norfolk, virginia. said something about looking into distribution centers.
Dorfaladin ago
Interesting. I do remember sounds being made to teh effect that it is a hub for trafficking. Not sure exactly where I heard this, though.
VIrginiaPerson ago
We were all looking into some posts a few weeks ago about the missing children in VA. I doubt you're remembering my comment, but I noticed that there were concentrated areas of kids missing from the Norfolk/Tidewater area and from DC Metro/NoVA (Northern Virginia). I'm sure other people noticed this too.
So obviously there are ports there in Norfolk because of the naval base. That is a largely a blue collar working class/poverty stricken area with mostly black people living there. The white people in that area usually commute in to work. NoVA is mostly upper class white, but there are a lot of international people there (refugees, immigrants, and H1B Visa workers).
The reason this stood out to me is because there are similar high population areas in Virginia that do NOT have the same high rate of missing kids. You would expect Richmond, Roanoke, Charlottesville, Lynchburg to have higher numbers of missing people than Norfolk, and similar numbers to that area tightly around the Capital, but they don't. DC Metro is should be considered more of a land port, as well, because there are a few large highways intersecting around there going to several different states and of course large and small airports.
Another thing, which maybe doesn't have anything to do with all this, but I think is interesting, is that these concentrated areas of missing people are right around where there using to be slave auctions. People would come in there at Norfolk and around the bottom of Maryland where there is a harbor and then they'd be sold to people with farms in Virginia.