How diverse is your area?

[MisterCreosote]

Just curious, given the racial component of the national "debate" right now.

I feel blessed to live in a very diverse, yet mostly harmonious, area. I like that my kids will grow up side by side with kids from a vast assortment of backgrounds and ethnicities. It's my hope that racism will be a foreign concept to them. The elementary school they'll go to is 26 percent white, and the high school is 32 percent white.

A quick scan of actual demographics show where I live is 55 percent white, and about 40 percent black/Asian/Hispanic. There are 14 houses on my street - six white, five Hispanic, two black, and one Indian.

 

[The Big Ragu]

I don't know if racism will be foreign to your kids, but globalism and the miscegination that has come from it (and will continue to come from it) is what is going to fix racism, not emotion. The world has gotten pretty small, and will continue to get even smaller. I am thinking that within 3 or 4 generations (if we don't destroy civilization first) everyone is going to look Puerto Rican. Then, people will need to find whole new criteria to justify their need to hate others.

EDIT: Sorry I didn't answer your question. Two homes. Not the most diverse neighborhoods given the racial make ups of the cities they are in, but you don't have to look far to see diversity.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Most diverse region in the country, baby!

My county is less than 50 percent white. About a third of the population is Asian (Chinese and Vietnamese for the most part). Only 3 percent black. Hispanic ethnicity up around 30 percent (including white Hispanic and non-white Hispanic obviously).

Politically, too, contrary to popular belief (and election results) there's a conservative presence, if it's perhaps silent. Lots of people with lots of money. Also the Google engineer is a pretty good proxy for that group. It isn't the political monolith it's made out to be (and which San Francisco an hour away definitely is).

My immediate home area matches those stats fairly accurately. One thing we lose points on is that by now, everybody's rich, either because of how much their home has increased in value or because it was so expensive they had to be rich to buy it in the first place. My neighborhood is far far removed from, for instance, the ACA/Medicaid debate.

 

[MisterCreosote]

I don't know if racism will be foreign to your kids...

I mean that more in comparison to my wife and I. I grew up in one of the most segregated cities in the country, and she grew up in a small town of about 2,000 honkies.

They'll grow up thinking this is all normal and wonder why there are people who make a big deal out of it.

 

[Songbird]

Currently, 95.9% white

But I grew up in Long Beach, a melting pot.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

I live in one of the whitest, most non-diverse areas of the United States.

Seriously.

 

[micropolitan guy]

It's been a long time but half of the children in my son's kindergarten class were either first-generation US citizens, or born in other countries. Not a high African-American population in Microville, but lots of Asian-Americans, India/Pakistan, Hispanic.

 

[jr/shotglass]

This area is considerably diverse in sum, but very divided geographically by the Susquehanna River.

The black and Hispanic families gravitate into the city and surrounding suburbs on the east shore. The suburban white families congregate on the west shore. And it's a common theme that one side doesn't cross the bridge to the other unless work gives them no other alternative.

 

[SpeedTchr]

Heinz 57 where I live. You name it, we have it. County is "majority" Hispanic now, with a rapidly-growing Asian population.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

My suburban town is 25 percent Asian, attracted by the school system. A sprinkling of African Americans and Hispanic Americans, maybe not statistically significant.

 

[Big Circus]

My wife and I were just discussing how white our small neighborhood is. (Our kids' eventual high school is 60 percent white.) But we could name just two black families in our neighborhood. Then, a few days later, she gets this email from our neighborhood association president (she's on the board):

Today I got a call from (black resident), new neighbor at (address) as follows:

• On Thursday, her 14 year old son was walking home from the bus, and could not get down his driveway because of the geese. Mother told him to wait till they clear out. He went to the head of the driveway and sat down. They are African-american.
• Someone called the police. 2 officers came, asked him questions (SS #, phone, etc.). They drove into his driveway. Left after convinced he lived there. Boy was very disturbed, thinking this is a racist neighborhood. Boy also upset about move from (high school 1) h to (high school 2).
• I explained to her that this is not a racist neighborhood. In fact, it is fairly diverse in all respects. But I mentioned the group homes, and history, and likelihood of increased awareness by the police. And we have some neighbors who are reclusive and do not mix.
• She wanted to know who might have made the call, but the police dispatched could/would not tell her.

She talked about good experience with new neighbors here since moving. Advised her/son to focus on positives, and try to not let this be a defining issue with them. If any of you have comment or other information, please let me know.

 

[typefitter]

We have a Chinese restaurant.

When I think of non-diverse places, I think of Montana. Might be the whitest place I've seen.

 

[Steak Snabler]

I don't know about numbers, but anecdotally, I have black neighbors next door and across the street. There is a large Hispanic and Southeast Asian (Vietnamese and Loatian) population in our general area, if not necessarily in my neighborhood.

 

[Buck]

I live in minority majority county.
And I'm the only white person in my six-person household.

 

[Moderator1]

I think I saw somewhere that Jersey City was the most diverse city in the country? There were 77 nationalities represented at the last census.
A couple of semi-regular posters were in the area about a month ago. They came out for dinner. I met them at the PATH and we walked four blocks to the restaurant. One of them said, "I just love listening to all the accents and languages."
It's a pretty great area.

My seven-unit building alone has four countries represented as well as black and white Americans.

I love it here.

 

[RickStain]

By county? Extremely diverse.

By city ? Still pretty diverse.

By neighborhood? Technically diverse if we don't acknowledge that rich old asian people are honorary white.

 

[albert777]

The county where I live is suburban/small town/rural, and the population is 75% white, 20% black and about 2-3% Hispanic. I believe Mississippi as a whole still has the highest percentage of blacks in the country, about 38%. As for my neighborhood, I live on a small cul-de-sac with four other houses and we're all white. But the neighborhood behind my house has a lot of townhouses and other relatively inexpensive housing, and the population is much more diverse.

 

[The Big Ragu]

We have a Chinese restaurant.

Where I come from, those usually come with Jews, also.

 

[cranberry]

I'm in an extremely diverse neighborhood. Love it.

 

[TyWebb]

I live in Atlanta. Obviously we have a large black population, but it is also one of the most gay-friendly cities in the country. We also have Georgia Tech and Emory, so there is no shortage of nerdy Asians and douchey white fratboys.

As a straight white man, I dig it. I could do without the ****ing hipsters at Little Five, though. Take those damn gauges out of your ears.