Hispanics/Minorities in Coeur d'Alene (how much, live in, price)

[k28mas]

Originally Posted by shamgar

Hi, I am a hispanic business owner and have an opportunity to buy a restaurant operation in your city of Coeur d'Alene. I live in a city that is probably 65-70% hispanic so I have been in the majority for a long time. Looking on this website it shows to have a hispanic population of about 2.7% or so. How accurate is this number and are minorities well received in this beautiful city?

I am a firm believer that discrimination comes directly from the person being discriminated against. I think it doesnt matter what race one might be, if we are law-abiding, tax paying, moral individual nobody should have a problem with you. My family and I are christians and see several churches of our denomination in the area.

I would just like a little reality viewpoint of how Coeur d'Alene really is with hispanics or any minority for that matter.

Thank you for your help.

If you put a republican sticker very visible in the restaurant you might be okay. If you speak good english without a strong accent and you dress for success you should be okay.

[Sage of Sagle]

Actually, Las Chavelas restaurant on Bosanko has some folks with not-so-great English and strong accents...and nobody hassles them.

The best way to get hassled in North Idaho is to start screaming about banning guns and hugging trees...not being hispanic...

[Raphael zamora]

I'm Cuban and my wife is from Nicaragua and we've lived here for 4 months now. This is a beautiful and friendly town. We're from Miami and this place is a walk in the park. The last time I checked, Coeur D Alene is still part of the united States of America. You have rights here too. I'm retiring in a year and no one is going to run us out of our dream! There are predjudice people all over the world. I pay no attention to them. I too plan to open a restaurant.(Cuban). Come on up here.....

[Sandpointian]

Originally Posted by Raphael zamora

I'm Cuban and my wife is from Nicaragua and we've lived here for 4 months now. This is a beautiful and friendly town. We're from Miami and this place is a walk in the park. The last time I checked, Coeur D Alene is still part of the united States of America. You have rights here too. I'm retiring in a year and no one is going to run us out of our dream! There are predjudice people all over the world. I pay no attention to them. I too plan to open a restaurant.(Cuban). Come on up here.....

NID appeals to the frontiersman in all of us, regardless of skin, origin, creed, etc. Cuban? Are you kidding me? I am there! Please deliver up to Sandpoint!

[ediddy]

I've read several comments here making it sound like 98% of people in CDA are Republicans. I guess none of you people ever step foot downtown. If you did you'd notice the HOPE/CHANGE bumper stickers on every 2nd Subaru parked south of Harrison.

Kootenai County isd 65% Republican. CDA proper is at best 50/50 and downtown is maybe 25%.

[Sage of Sagle]

OK...but using your logic, most of Kootenai County outside of CDA is then 75/25 Republican, with some areas 90% to compensate for the downtown demographic to reach the countywide average.

It's like Bonner County and Sandpoint. Our county goes a good 85% conservative. But I swear nearly the entire 15% live in Sandpoint city, and they're a super vocal minority.

[ediddy]

Originally Posted by Sage of Sagle

OK...but using your logic, most of Kootenai County outside of CDA is then 75/25 Republican, with some areas 90% to compensate for the downtown demographic to reach the countywide average.

It's like Bonner County and Sandpoint. Our county goes a good 85% conservative. But I swear nearly the entire 15% live in Sandpoint city, and they're a super vocal minority.

I can't speak about Bonner or Sandpoint. But for Kootenai, you're assuming the population of downtown = the population outside downtown. And that's not true. The county is 140K give or take. Downtown CDA is ~10K. 65/35 is about the split county wide with downtown CDA being the outlier.

Point is there are plenty of Democrats in the area, despite what many people write here. Up until last year, the congressional district that includes Kootenai and Bonner counties was held by a Democrat who lost in the Republican wave of 2010.

I'm not making the claim CDA is San Francisco or anything. It's a Republican leaning area. But it's by no means rural Alabama with regards to voting patterns.

[Osito]

Coeur d'Alene lake is right by the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation.

[txranger19]

love this post. I am 35 yo white man with 3 kids, and I love the fact that we are talking about every reace living in harmony instead of bigotry from all sides in every direction. Thank you thank you thank you

[txranger19]

I also want to add that here in Texas, legal and illegal Mexican immigrants come here and turn Texas into what they were comfortable with in Mexico. There used to be a flee market that my dad and I would sell baseball cards at in the early 90's. Just folks walking around and buying and selling stuff at a flee market. I visited that same place 6 years ago and got "whoa what are you doing here" looks and no one spoke english and a tejano band was playing?? I am subject to being called names like "whero" and some other name i cant spell. Honeslty, I dont want my children to grow up experiencing bigotry and discrimination, and I damn sure do not want them having to learn spanish to get a job unless its in a spanish speaking country, or they choose to do so. Racism is a problem in Texas and I am sure California and New Mexico, but its mostly white folks that I see get called names and so on.
I long for a place to live that people are just people and we all co inhabit the space happily. But I also want that place to preserve the passed 100 or so years of the AMERICAN values that I grew up learning about and loving. I am not real interested on another countries culture becoming prominent in my country.