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Tour of white flight in the 2000s. Couldn't help but look for signs of the book that this would have been if it were written anytime within the last 6 years or so (instead of in 2008 or 2009). Would he be harder on the racist white whitopians he met? Would the racist whitopians have been even more overtly racist? It might have been interesting to see how the Tea Party interacted with whitopia, but alas, they were lurking just a little way into the future. Where would Black Lives Matter have fit into the chapter about whitopia's urban "implied opposites"? Some of his ideas have aged well, and some seem a little outdated. For instance, Benjamin's disapproval of identity politics would probably get some (I think deserved) pushback today, but his characterization of White identity politics as the most mainstream and central of all identity politics remains relevant.