territa wrote:Lullaby of the Chocolate City ?!I don't get it.
I grew up (and am now living in) the Maryland suburbs.
One of DC's nicknames is "Chocolate City" in reference to its being a majority-African-American city. During the '50s and '60s, a lotta working-class white families fled DC for the suburbs, leaving a few neighborhoods in Northwest predominately white (and mostly upper-income), the rest of the city predominately black and low- to moderate income. I first remember having heard the nickname "Chocolate City" back in the '70s, when I was in elementary school, but the nickname may have been around before that.
I get the impression that the "Chocolate City" nickname is not well-known outside of the DC area, where people tend to think that "Nobody who lives in Washington, DC is actually FROM there," that Washington, DC is filled with bureaucrats and lobbyists," etc.

