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Excellent piece. Sarah talks about something I suspected—the decline of the public pool is linked to integration and, in more modern times, our new gilded age. Considering that integration didn’t really happen in Tulsa until the 1970s, I can see all these nice white parents not frequenting the pool as much when they become diverse. And then there’s our current age of obscene wealth that will build its own damn pools for $100,000 and cry about a slight raise in taxes to pay for public pools. As Tulsa pool culture goes, so goes the nation
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