Atlanta one of nation's least diverse cities

[aries4118]

Originally Posted by Otakumaster

I've given up looking at any article that uses city limits for the statistics.

The city of Atlanta accounts for less than 1/10 of the metro population so it really doesn't tell us ANYTHING about how diverse the region is.

Anyone who lives here, explored outside the city limits or seen the metro statistics knows this and you don't even have to go far since the city limits are so tiny.

Article is misleading and useless to most people who really need to know who diverse any of the those cities are.

Yes.

[chiatldal]

Originally Posted by ATLTJL

I think the study is looking at actual diversity, not just the number of black and white people. By that metric, Atlanta fails miserably. The city is just about entirely black and white. Most of the other minorities live in the suburbs.

Remember: a large African American population does not a diverse city make.

To bold yes it does, but it can't be the only factor, blacks are minority group that contribute to making a place diverse no different than Latinos, Asian etc. The issue is 2 groups alone doesn't make a place diverse.. If you swomp Blacks for Latinos, and city would overwhelmingly be Latino and white it would be same issue. And that's the issue CoA needs other minority groups as well.

But As point out the Metro Area is very diverse. I think list like these which doesn't point stuff like that out are a little misleading. It's like a foreigner reading about America's largest cities list and read Jacksonville and SD before Atlanta. It's very misleading.

[beach43ofus]

The Atlanta airport and mass transit system (MARTA) is the least diverse airport/trans I've ever seen in my life. If that is indicitive for the entire city of Atlanta, I'd agree that the city too lacks diversity.

Atlanta has not had a White Mayor in 45 years, and have not had a Republican Mayor since the 1800's, so it lacks political diversity too.

I'd say its earned it low diversity ranking.

It doesn't seem to be doing much harm though, the airport is the businest in the USA, and keeps growing, and the population of Atlanta keeps growing. Maybe diversity doesn't matter?

[DreamerD]

Originally Posted by chiatldal

To bold yes it does, but it can't be the only factor, blacks are minority group that contribute to making a place diverse no different than Latinos, Asian etc. The issue is 2 groups alone doesn't make a place diverse.. If you swomp Blacks for Latinos, and city would overwhelmingly be Latino and white it would be same issue. And that's the issue CoA needs other minority groups as well.

But As point out the Metro Area is very diverse. I think list like these which doesn't point stuff like that out are a little misleading. It's like a foreigner reading about America's largest cities list and read Jacksonville and SD before Atlanta. It's very misleading.

Thanks for pointing this out.

[demonta4]

Originally Posted by beach43ofus

The Atlanta airport and mass transit system (MARTA) is the least diverse airport/trans I've ever seen in my life. If that is indicitive for the entire city of Atlanta, I'd agree that the city too lacks diversity.

Atlanta has not had a White Mayor in 45 years, and have not had a Republican Mayor since the 1800's, so it lacks political diversity too.

I'd say its earned it low diversity ranking.

It doesn't seem to be doing much harm though, the airport is the businest in the USA, and keeps growing, and the population of Atlanta keeps growing. Maybe diversity doesn't matter?

Mayoral races are non partisan.

[Otakumaster]

Originally Posted by beach43ofus

The Atlanta airport and mass transit system (MARTA) is the least diverse airport/trans I've ever seen in my life. If that is indicitive for the entire city of Atlanta, I'd agree that the city too lacks diversity.

Atlanta has not had a White Mayor in 45 years, and have not had a Republican Mayor since the 1800's, so it lacks political diversity too.

I'd say its earned it low diversity ranking.

It doesn't seem to be doing much harm though, the airport is the businest in the USA, and keeps growing, and the population of Atlanta keeps growing. Maybe diversity doesn't matter?

I am confused by the bold because most of the people in the Airport are travelers and don't even live in GA?

The Marta quote is silly because I ride it everyday and the demographics depends on the location of the route or the event taking place.

[AnsleyPark]

Originally Posted by beach43ofus

The Atlanta airport and mass transit system (MARTA) is the least diverse airport/trans I've ever seen in my life. If that is indicitive for the entire city of Atlanta, I'd agree that the city too lacks diversity.

What makes an airport diverse?

[Tarzanman]

Originally Posted by AnsleyPark

What makes an airport diverse?

Different size terminals, a variety of airlines, lots of different cuisines to eat, different kids of chairs, couches, tables, and desks to sit in/at, also a huge mall with a movie theater or museum.