Reader response to Jan. 27th posting about racism’s role in the evolution of local zoning

An Arvada reader thanked me for that earlier post and asked if I was aware of the 1898 “coup” in Wilmington, North Carolina. (I wasn’t.) I found the following article on History.com which described it as “America’s only successful coup d’etat.” Here’s a link to it.

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Author: Jim Smith, Broker

Jim Smith is best known for his weekly "Real Estate Today" column published on the Real Estate page of The Denver every Saturday and in 24 metro area weekly newspapers the following Wednesday or Thursday. Individual articles are also published at http://RealEstateToday.substack.com. Over a decade of the columns are archived at www.JimSmithColumns.com.

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