"Bushvilles": tent cities increasing in USA

handfleisch

In the 1930s the tent cities and shantytowns of poor people in the US were called "Hoovervilles". Now they are coming back, and if they keep expanding (Seattle, Reno, Sacramento and Nashville are a few places documented so far), will they be called "Bushvilles"?

TENT CITY PHOTO ESSAY http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29528182/displaymode/1107/s/2/

Is it time for a tent city in Dallas?
http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2009/mar/09/it-time-tent-city-dallas/

Pictured: The credit crunch tent city which has returned to haunt America
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1159677/Pictured-The-credit-crunch-tent-city-returned-haunt-America.html

deanhills

Why Bushvilles? I would call them Bankvilles, or better yet, name the tent cities after all the Banks and companies that have been bailed out courtesy of the American people of the US.

coolclay

More like Creditvilles, if it wasn't for people using ridiculous amounts of credit way beyond their means most of them most certainly wouldn't be in that position. Bush had very little to do with the place our economy is in today, but like he has been in the past 8 years he is a very easy target and makes a wonderful scapegoat for just about anything that goes wrong in our country. Either way it's good to see people joining together and forming their own communities. It's too bad to see them not even trying to make it anywhere in life though.

ocalhoun

I would think that the people living in tents there have much more trouble with the ridiculously overinflated real-estate prices in California than with Bush's policies.