The FHA took this ranking and ran. They mapped out cities, dividing them into which neighborhoods were riskier to lend money, with no variable more important than race. Neighborhoods where the Protestant Anglos lived were marked in green, and, with other colors representing other groups in between, the neighborhoods where black people and Mexicans lived were marked in red. This is where we get the term redlining, which forced scores of black people into doing business with predatory lenders on homes in neighborhoods that were deemed undesirable and therefore less valuable than green—or rather
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