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Originally Posted by The_Fairfaxian
I beg to differ. I doubt the OP just wants to settle for some "la-de-da multicultural/diverse" city where in reality, every race is at each others throats like in NYC, Philly, Chicago, or Miami; Or better yet, every other race is aligned against a particular underrepresented minority, i.e. how every other race in the Northeast is generally anti-black or people in the Southwest cities that are anti-Latino).
As for the most integrated city, the best places are either west of the Mississippi River (a given), or if they want to stick east, don't rely on city centers/downtowns, but look for neighborhoods and communities that were built (not gentrified, but built) after the 1970s. In the DC area for example, places such as Reston, Herndon, Falls Church, Silver Spring, Takoma, and a FEW other places that are legitimately integrated were either recently developed in the past few decades or were revitalized. Even though the city itself (and the bordering places like Arlington, Alexandria, and Bethesda) are pretty diverse, this usually is seen during the "working" or "leisure" hours; and during the leisure hours, people tend to either stay in racially monolithic cliques or the whites will usually have a sprinkle of "model minorities" with them. And even though a lot of gentrification is occurring within the district, many people who move to these places tend to have a more "subdue" racial tension towards the minorities that formerly lived there and are still visible (and I'm not just talking about the uneducated and crime causing ones, but this lingering hatred is targeted towards all people of that particular race).
So this is the complicated case for racial integration in the DC area in my eyes. It's better than your "average joe" American city, but is pathetic when compared with most cities out West - the irony being that the most westward you go within the DC area itself, the more racially integrated it gets.
That's intersting...I'm very serious about trying to move to the US in a couple of years, and would prefer an area with less racial tension. I'm interested in Boston, is that city more or less racially integrated than average?
Probably anywhere in California [esp the Bay Area & Los Angeles]. Inter-racial marriages are the highest in California & there is no taboo compared to the South.
That's intersting...I'm very serious about trying to move to the US in a couple of years, and would prefer an area with less racial tension. I'm interested in Boston, is that city more or less racially integrated than average?
Unless you're Asian (South Indian or Oriental), Boston would probably be one of the considerations when it comes to cities that have peaceful and consensual racial integration.
I'd just stick to the cities that have already been mentioned.
I was thinking, in a way minorities in cities with fewer minorities would be less likely to be type-cast and less likely to live in segregated areas. Sacramento, I always thought, was a very white city, so I suppose many of the blacks there can't help but integrate.
Not necessarily. Omaha his predominantly white at 75%. Minorities make up 25% of the population and Omaha is segregated. Most of the Blacks are concentrated in North Omaha and most of the Hispanics are concentrated in South Omaha.
Keyword "county".
And diversity doesn't = integration.
True and I think some parts are integrated and others aren't so much.
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