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NY, and DC is the only city with the level of Diversity of the west coast.
Everyone knows there are no minoritys in Boston at all
Yeah, if Blacks don't count as people and Asians/Mexicans count twice as much as minorities, then sure, you're right.
However, there is also Oregon and Washington which are definitely West Coast and definitely not diverse by ANY stretch of the imagination. I'm not even sure that most people who live in the PNW outside of Seattle and Portland have ever seen any minorities before aside from Mexican farmworker.
LOL this is becoming laughable, there's no such thing as a "west coast megalopolis".
It's called SoCal and NorCal.
Do you even know what megalopolis means? It refers to when multiple metro areas are next to each other. It doesn't at all refer to the size of a city, which is what I'm assuming you're using it to mean. New York City by itself is not a megalopolis, the Northeast is the megalopolis.
It's ok you've never lived in a megalopolis to know what one is. It's a long chain of metros adjacent to each other. Nothing "megalopolis" standard about Sac or SD being near SF or LA. California has 2 megaregions (no its not the same thing) tho so I guess that's "impressive". The only 2 megalopolises in the world are the NEC and Taiheyo belt in Japan. If California had a cohesive megalopolis it would be called SanSan, San Francisco to San Diego but the area between NoCal and SoCal isn't filled in yet
However, there is also Oregon and Washington which are definitely West Coast and definitely not diverse by ANY stretch of the imagination. I'm not even sure that most people who live in the PNW outside of Seattle and Portland have ever seen any minorities before aside from Mexican farmworker.
Oh come on now... both states are huge nature tourist states. That's like saying Non-white people don't go out and see nature. There is some diversity in the areas out of the i5 corridor... granted not in huge numbers, but its not at a point where you have people out there that have only seen other white people.
We also have lots of tribes around as well.
Not that it means much to you: If you're black and want to be in WA... but around other black people and other races, you don't live in Seattle. You live south of Seattle (incidentally, if you ask around-- people will say not to live south of Seattle because that's where all the bad schools are, and crime[!!!] happen) and Tacoma (also another area with a bad rep).
It's ok you've never lived in a megalopolis to know what one is. It's a long chain of metros adjacent to each other. Nothing "megalopolis" standard about Sac or SD being near SF or LA. California has 2 megaregions (no its not the same thing) tho so I guess that's "impressive". The only 2 megalopolises in the world are the NEC and Taiheyo belt in Japan. If California had a cohesive megalopolis it would be called SanSan, San Francisco to San Diego but the area between NoCal and SoCal isn't filled in yet
From that very article:
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A megalopolis, also known as a megaregion, is a clustered network of cities with a population of about 10 million or more.
I don't need to have lived on the West Coast to come up with that opinion. You really think most White liberals want to live around minorities? Again, Manhattan is DEFINITELY liberal leaning, but look at how kids don't attend NYPS schools.
Exactly.
Anyways,
So, you're using racism in New York City to prove a point about racism in the West Coast?
Actually it also says "A megalopolis (sometimes called a megapolis or megaregion) is typically defined as a chain of roughly adjacent metropolitan areas."
People can call them one or the other but they aren't the same thing. The term megalopolis as we use it today came from Gottmann trying to define the future of Bos-Wash.
A megalopolis should always be a megaregion but a megaregion isn't always a megalopolis. The information for the megaregions sections on Wikipedia comes from America 2050, a site I think most of us on here know. Their megaregions are actually areas they outlined that have the potential to be megalopolises in the future, whenever that could be, but not currently. The only "officially" defined megalopolis in the US is Bos-Wash. None of the other megaregions are really close to the integration and filled in space that's in Bos-Wash, but many of them could end up like that in future.
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