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I do freelance work for certain magazines some of you may have read. I know many of you have seen the prevelance of best places to live, retire, raise a family, be gay, be single, have pets, be happy, be sad and anything over interest people might be curious about. I have compiled a partial list; consisting of suburbs of the New York Combined Statistical Area and a few bordering counties I believe should be part of this area. This information was exhaustive in research, but I have no problem showing you partial results of my work. I currently have only information regarding the non-hispanic white population right now as it is the largest. What makes this list exhaustive is that it addresses only the non-hispanic white population in the elementary school years. This helps one understand where that particular town will end up in the future. (If immigration is curtailed of course). I have added a star to those towns if per-capita incomes of $30,000. or more indicating in general these towns are upper-middle class and up. Keep in mind some of these communities include surrounding unincorporated areas as well as townships and areas surrounding them which have no defined center and rely on the central town. An example would be Milford borough, NJ and Holland township, NJ or Belvidere borough, NJ and White township, NJ. Well here it is....
New York Metro
Population: 22,953,086
Percentage W: 55%
Well take a look at the cities on the bottom of the list. Then take a look at the ones on top of the list. See the correlation with what we know about the cities/towns on the bottom? While I don't know how good this research is, I can bet you he is probably close in his statistics.
I would hope it is to help people who are looking for diverse areas and not for any other reason.
But does it really help with that? Take a city toward the bottom that is only 10% white- is the other 90% all black, or is it a mix of black, hispanic, asian, etc., which would make for a truly "diverse" area? What about a town in the middle that's 45% white- what's the other 55% composed of, and is it "diverse"?
As soon as he added the littles stars to show if per capita income was over $30k, the point of the "study" became clear- once you drop below 30% white on his list, there's no more stars, which would imply that predominantly non-white areas are poor areas. What other piece of info could you possibly glean from this study?
Palisades Park, NJ which is towards the bottom of the list has a huge Korean neighborhood with some hispanics. Overall a very safe small town. Big Korean population in Fort Lee also which is towards the bottom, but a very nice town with expensive real estate
But does it really help with that? Take a city toward the bottom that is only 10% white- is the other 90% all black, or is it a mix of black, hispanic, asian, etc., which would make for a truly "diverse" area? What about a town in the middle that's 45% white- what's the other 55% composed of, and is it "diverse"?
As soon as he added the littles stars to show if per capita income was over $30k, the point of the "study" became clear- once you drop below 30% white on his list, there's no more stars, which would imply that predominantly non-white areas are poor areas. What other piece of info could you possibly glean from this study?
Imply? You seem to have a problem with reality.
Is it racist to say that non-white areas are almost always poorer if it's the truth?
Some people in their overzealous drive for artificial equality seem to want to cover their ears with a pillow whenever they hear something which implies that every race isn't equally successful.
Is it racist to say that non-white areas are almost always poorer if it's the truth?
Not to me it's not.
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Originally Posted by ReluctantGardenStater
Some people in their overzealous drive for artificial equality seem to want to cover their ears with a pillow whenever they hear something which implies that every race isn't equally successful.
Again, not me. I'm the last one to just on the "we must have diversity" bandwagon. I live in a county that's +/- 96% white (that wasn't the major deciding factor on selecting where we live, but it was taken into consideration), and I'm not beating the diversity drum to change that.
I don't understand this list...what does the percentage after each town represent?
The percentage of the population that is white.
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