Interestingly, in Florida, the poorest areas are adjacent to the richest. I’m trying to think if that was the case in other places I lived. The wealthy send their children to private school, they probably employed some of the people in the poorer areas to clean their houses, mind their children, and manicure their lawns.
The suburbs are more insulated with various levels of income, but still all middle class.
I have a feeling that the statement means different things to different people. When I lived near Memphis, I lived in a small town that was an “arbor” city that didn’t allow people to have up lights to shine on their homes at night because they wanted the skies to be dark and starry.
At one point, a developer bought up some land and wanted to put in a plaza with restaurants and stores. He paid a lot of money to draw up very pretty plans to get approval. People in the town turned out to state their strong disapproval. They didn’t want the traffic and in that part of the country “malls“ are perceived as crime areas and negative to property values. They saw no value regarding the convenience of having a beautiful plaza with restaurants and shopping.
So maybe people in a town like that associate Democrats with mixed use type zoning and also, as people mentioned above, forcing developers to provide lower income housing. Probably Democrats are the ones who put in rules to make sure lower income have a place to live. There is theory that it’s best to have them living in the same communities and buildings as higher income, similar to desegregating and bussing for schools.
Other people interpret it as an extension of the immigration topic. Build a wall on the southern border, not much different than build a wall around your neighborhood.
My point is it’s vague enough people can twist it to suit their own fears.
When Trump says, “I saved your neighborhood,” o think he hasn’t done anything to do any such thing, but his groupies believe he has. They believe without him their life would be much worse.