There was a rather morbid photograph on one of the local news sites the other night of Austin looking south along I-35 during the rolling blackouts. The East Side was more or less pitch black. The west side - downtown, the capitol, the stadium, the Frost Bank building etc - was lit up like a Christmas tree.

The east side was created by redlining policies put in place 100 years ago, and is where much of Austin’s lower income population lives.

It wasn’t meant to be a comprehensive statistical analysis but it was a pretty stark photo.