Most intact inner city White neighborhood in the Northeastern/Midwest US? (2015, renter)

[1972Impala]

What would you say is the most intact white working class urban area in the Industrial USA that hasn't succumbed to white flight, redlining, arson etc. and are still majority caucasian? I would put a few out there:

Woodlawn, Bronx, NYC
Howard Beach, Queens, NYC
Marine Park, Brooklyn, NYC
South Phildadelphia (West of Broad, south of Passyunk)
the entire city of Gloucester City, NJ
Port Richmond, Philadelphia
Southeast Baltimore
South Boston
Charlestown, Boston
Canaryville, Chicago
"The Patch", Chicago
Beverly/Midway, Chicago
Bloomfield, Pittsburgh.

Disclaimer: I am NOT saying all white, segregated neighborhoods are a good thing nor am I pining for a time when inner cities were whiter. I am just curious as to what would be the most intact white working class area in the Industrial (Northeastern/Midwestern) US would be in 2015.

Thoughts?

[ckhthankgod]

South Buffalo comes to mind.

[costello_musicman]

Cleveland would be the area of Kamm's Corners:

Kamm's Corners - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Drewcifer]

Parts of the east side of St Paul are majority white and very much working class. While the Twin Cities may not be thought of as industrial Midwest, that part of St Paul is, and has been for a long time.

[MUTGR]

parts of St. Louis city, such as St. Louis Hills, Dogtown, Hampton Heights, a few others come to mind.

[Cliff Clavin]

Originally Posted by 1972Impala

South Boston
Charlestown, Boston

Although both largely white, neither are particularly working class anymore.

[fezzador]

Originally Posted by 1972Impala

What would you say is the most intact white working class urban area in the Industrial USA that hasn't succumbed to white flight, redlining, arson etc. and are still majority caucasian?

I think you described the Beaverdale neighborhood in Des Moines to a T. It's still lily-white (easily one of the whitest neighborhoods in an increasingly-diversifying city) and traditionally home to unionized, Catholic, pro-Democrat workers (though this is no longer necessarily the case). In other words, sort of a Rust Belt-vibe.

[5Lakes]

Southeast side of Buffalo
Bayview in Milwaukee
much of Scranton/Wilkes-Barre PA
several smallish cities in New England (e.g. Portland, Manchester, Fall River, New Bedford)
several smallish northern Appalachian cities (e.g. Charleston, Huntington, Johnstown, Altoona)

[2e1m5a]

Also Bridesburg, Roxborough and a large chunk of the Northeast in Philly.

And Rockaway Beach/Breezy Point in Queens.

[eschaton]

Originally Posted by 1972Impala

Bloomfield, Pittsburgh.

No.

Bloomfield was a working-class white neighborhood around ten years ago. It's now a pretty heavily 20something renter neighborhood. Most of Pittsburgh's old working-class white neighborhoods which were walkable and 19th century are now gentrified. Pittsburgh is still pretty heavily white for a major rust belt city, it's just not heavily working class any longer.

In terms of Pittsburgh today, the following neighborhoods are what I would call working-class white. I'm terming this as neighborhoods over 2/3rds white, where less than 25% of the population has a bachelor's degree or higher, and where there has not been any recent gentrification.

North: Troy Hill, Spring Garden, Spring Hill-City View, Summer Hill

West: Crafton Heights, Oakwood, East Carnegie. Ridgemont

South: Beechview, Brookline, Bon Air, Overbrook, Carrick, Arlington, Hays, West Homestead, Lincoln Place

East: None - Everything that's 2/3rds white or greater is at least semi-gentrified now. There are of course pockets left in individual neighborhoods, but these are more exceptions than the general rule.

Note that most of the neighborhoods I listed above are full of detached single-family homes built out between 1920s and 1950s. Most of the older Pittsburgh neighborhoods are gentrified, blighted, or were urban renewed. Troy Hill is arguably the last fully intact, walkable, urban working class white neighborhood in the city.