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Only 5.1% are African Americans, the city is 44.1% white.
No it's not
Non-Hispanic White Population, City proper
68.6%--Jacksonville, FL
54.9%--Nashville, TN
51.9%--Indianapolis, IN
39.7%--Charlotte, NC
38.9%--Atlanta, GA
38.3%--San Francisco, CA
37.7%--Fort Worth, TX
36.3%--Washington, DC
33.5%--Philadelphia, PA
31.2%--New York, NY
29.0%--Oakland, CA
23.9%--San Jose, CA
San Francisco is literally as white as Atlanta and Washington DC.
It appears you think black and white proportion is the only definition of 'diversity'.
Most Diverse Urban Areas in the US Ranked in Order of Total Diversity
New York City: 149.8
Washington DC: 113.8
Houston: 97.7
Los Angeles: 97.6
San Francisco: 90.2
Dallas/Fort Worth: 83.0
Sacramento: 82.1
Atlanta: 80.9
Chicago: 80.6
Boston: 80.1
Miami/Fort Lauderdale: 80.0
Seattle/Tacoma: 79.5
San Jose: 76.4
San Diego: 73.1
Orlando: 72.3
Las Vegas: 72.0
Philadelphia: 64.3
Riverside/San Bernardino: 63.9
Baltimore: 60.6
Charlotte: 60.2
Austin: 59.9
Minneapolis/St. Paul: 59.1
Detroit: 57.2
Raleigh: 56.9
Tampa: 56.6
Hartford: 56.3
Columbus: 55.2
Jacksonville: 54.9
Phoenix: 52.8
Richmond: 51.5
Providence: 50.9
Denver: 50.2
Portland: 50.1
Virginia Beach: 49.8
Oklahoma City: 49.6
Nashville: 49.3
Indianapolis: 47.0
Salt Lake City: 46.2
Milwaukee: 45.9
San Antonio: 45.1
Kansas City: 43.9
Memphis: 42.8
St. Louis: 40.1
Cleveland: 40.1
Cincinnati: 38.0
El Paso: 35.0
Pittsburgh: 34.6
McAllen: 29.2
Its important to remember that the numbers will always be fluid because people constantly move, are born, and die. So when you see a clump of places with similar numbers, its important to think of them having similar levels of diversity.
In 2007 I was in Sacramento for a course. In my hotel room, I read in a brochure that Sacramento was the most diverse, according to a current magazine article. I can't remember if it was the city, urban area, MSA or what, but the course instructor, by finding a way to incorporate that stat into a question appropriate for the lecture, asked the class what (city) was the nation's most diverse. I answered correctly. I guess my fellow hotel guests missed it in the brochure or I was quicker than them.
Seems accurate. I would only put Boston ahead of Dallas. Atlanta, Sacramento and Dallas don’t have nearly the same diversity in their white/European population as Boston. And Chicago’s black population is not diverse like Boston’s either.
But Boston doesn't have the Pacific/Asian diversity nor Latin diversity of DFW.
That's only because the American concept of diversity is based on exceptionally broad "racial" categories that, in reality, may be comprised of lots of ethnocultural groups and persons of varying national origins.
A city with a 100% Hispanic population that consists of Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Peruvians, and Guatemalans is, in all likelihood, going to be more diverse than a city that's half (non-Hispanic) African American and half (non-Hispanic) White American--and that's not even considering the racial diversity of that Hispanic population.
This what I was talking about when another poster said he thought Boston should be ranked higher than Dallas because of European ancestry in NE but assuming Hispanic in Texas is just Mexican.
Thanks for substantiating! And didn’t mean it as a slight against Seattle haha - just figured West Coast cities would be an easier referential point for that poster
How is Austin not included? White alone in the city its 63.2%. This is City of close to 1 million people, within an MSA over 2.3 million residents
But Boston doesn't have the Pacific/Asian diversity nor Latin diversity of DFW.
DFW has Latin diversity? I thought it was predominantly Mexican.
As for Asian diversity, the Boston area has the second highest concentration of Cambodians after LA. Likely behind DFW in terms of Filipino, Korean, and Vietnamese. Though not 100% certain on the second. Does DFW have as large a Viet pop as Houston?
I think Seattle being less white than Philadelphia is a lot more "surprising"
but again, not totally, the Metro Area was built out at a very different time.
It’s not surprising in many peoples head America is black and white. Without much if a black population Seattle is assumed to be white but that’s not true. It’s very Asian and Hispanic
Also as far as Hispanics go there are a lot of 3rd generation Mexicans in the west that are just white people with the name Hernandez. While “Hispanics” tend to be more recent, Afro-latino Immigrants (or Puerto Ricans) in New England
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