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I would think that most liberal big cities are majority White. Seattle is 63% White, and Portland is 70% White. Even San Francisco is majority White, at 39.2%. You have to look at the agricultural and near-border cities like Los Angeles to find Whites no longer the majority. Los Angeles is 44% White, below Hispanic at 48.4%, but Los Angeles County is still majority White by far at 70%.
It might be a bit of a cheat but Chapel Hill-Carrboro NC works well here, even though just a shade under 100K. The two towns merge effortlessly to the point it's hard to tell where, and often goes by the moniker of Chapelboro. The population is 62% White, 15% Asian, 9% Hispanic and 8% Black. Both cities have been solidly Blue for decades, with Carrboro first electing an openly gay mayor in 1995 and re-elected him twice. In the 2020 general elections Biden won the area with an average of around 90%.
The figures would be skewed somewhat as both are (city/ county) consolidated. Indy since the late 60’s and Louisville since the mid 2000’s. Their former (true) city limits would likely not convey a significant (if at all) white populous majority.
Nashville.... It's a democratic city... It's population 53% white, about 25% black and 14% hispanic, very diverse city though. It's demographics are changing fast so that could have a lot to do with it. Large Kurdish, Middle Eastern and Somalin population.
I would think that most liberal big cities are majority White. Seattle is 63% White, and Portland is 70% White. Even San Francisco is majority White, at 39.2%. You have to look at the agricultural and near-border cities like Los Angeles to find Whites no longer the majority. Los Angeles is 44% White, below Hispanic at 48.4%, but Los Angeles County is still majority White by far at 70%.
I assume you're counting Hispanic/Latinos as white in your Los Angeles and Los Angeles County calculations?
The figures would be skewed somewhat as both are (city/ county) consolidated. Indy since the late 60’s and Louisville since the mid 2000’s. Their former (true) city limits would likely not convey a significant (if at all) white populous majority.
Not so fast my friend.
Center Township, which includes downtown Indianapolis and a lot of the old city limits of Indianapolis, is 50% white and 32% black per the most recent census.
Note that I am not saying that is a good or bad thing, I am just saying the old city limits are pretty close to aligned with the city as a whole, and suggesting otherwise is a red flag that you don't know much about Indianapolis.
I would think that most liberal big cities are majority White. Seattle is 63% White, and Portland is 70% White. Even San Francisco is majority White, at 39.2%. You have to look at the agricultural and near-border cities like Los Angeles to find Whites no longer the majority. Los Angeles is 44% White, below Hispanic at 48.4%, but Los Angeles County is still majority White by far at 70%.
63% is less white than the country as a whole? Like what’s the standard for “predominantly”, majority? 2/3rds? 3/4ths?
Cause most places are majority white in a country that’s 70% white.
I feel like Northern New England is your best bet here, since New England is the only place Dems really significantly win the White Vote. Portland, ME is 82% White and like Biden+65
Center Township, which includes downtown Indianapolis and a lot of the old city limits of Indianapolis, is 50% white and 32% black per the most recent census.
Note that I am not saying that is a good or bad thing, I am just saying the old city limits are pretty close to aligned with the city as a whole, and suggesting otherwise is a red flag that you don't know much about Indianapolis.
The 152,000 in center township seems a lot further off of what would have been the city limit population before the consolidation almost 50 years ago. Even if it suffered a population decline comparable to what occurred in similar sized cities in the harder hit rust belt areas, it would seem that there would be at least 300,000 within those limits. Also, wouldn’t the pre 1970 city limits have been larger (maybe not by a whole lot but definitely bigger) than the 42 sq. mi of what they’re referring to as the center township?
I don’t proclaim to be an expert on the city, but what I know is that with a 1:1 ratio of white to everyone else, it would be a stretch to define Indianapolis as a predominantly white liberal city among the likes of the aforementioned cities in the earlier posts. Indeed, on the ground Indy feels very much like its peers Columbus and Cincinnati in terms of noticeable diversity, and moderately liberal somewhere in between the 2 but closer to the latter.
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