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I can only go by my experience (haven't been to every city in the country) but I say right here in Northern Virginia. I'd dare say that the suburbs as a whole are the new places for diversity and tolerance. Cities, at least with DC and to a lesser extent Atlanta and Manhattan, seem to lack safe middle class neighborhoods. You're either in an extremely wealthy area or extremely poor area there's no middle ground. Thus the lack of diversity in many cities.
Other places that bring diversity to my mind would be Brooklyn and Queens (NOT Manhattan) along with New Jersey and Long Island. I also think of Los Angeles. I hear Dallas and Houston are getting pretty diverse as well. Parts of suburban Atlanta are diverse but not all parts.
Not true at all in reality maybe its your experience but Manhattan alone was ranked 7th most diverse county in the country. Almost every single one of my schools were diverse. Manhattan is pretty safe. I live here.
Okeydoke. Thanks for so many great responses! I'm going to start to help you narrow it down. I've lived in the south, as well as on both coasts (east and west), in Chicago and in New England, among other places. Here are your choices (again, this is just my humble opinion). I'll share my #1 choice in the next day or so. They are (drumroll): Honolulu, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Orlando, Oakland, DC, Sacramento, Boston, Miami. Keep in mind, my choice does not only take diversity into account...some cities are very racially diverse, but it does not count as tolerance if races do not live together and have some level of civility towards one another. Only four cities really make my list (top 4), the others are just thrown in for the heck of it. What do you think? Do any of these cities resonate with you in the tolerance or racially liberal department? What would your top 4 be? You might disagree with my list altogether which is fine. My #1 (and ranking from 1 to 4) probably tomorrow.
The Twin Cities have perhaps the highest ratio of interracial couples - its just not a big deal to see a white woman and a black man (or vice versa although not as common) and within the low-middle class and lower areas and inner ring suburbs you get a lot of mixed neighborhoods. Move out a distance though and the mixing kind of stops. Its not a race thing so much as cultural, however, since even whites from other parts of the country (outside of the upper midwest) tend to feel a bit frozen out as well, and generally there has not been a history of racial conflict. In the 90's there was a bit of a bad mood because there was a lot of immigration from places like Chicago and Indiana but I think that's mostly over with now.
San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, Seattle, Minneapolis, Denver
Minneapolis has one of the highest(if not #1) black poverty rate for a major regional city. 45% of the city black population are in poverty. Another way to measure a city liberalism is seeing how successful minorities are doing in the city.
On the other hand Minneapolis is a good place for interracial dating.
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I read this as "Radically tolerant" and I was thinking to myself, "how do you tolerate someone in a radical way?"
I would disagree that Albuquerque is that tolerant. It's true that Hispanic, Native, Asian, black, and white people can all live together in the same neighborhood with no problems, but people still get very 'sensitive' about Native Americans. I can't bring up anything do with Native America without most people saying something like "you know, I think the real problem with Native Americans is...." If all I said was "I'm going to a Native American art show downtown tomorrow", why are you starting to tell me how you would 'fix' Native America?
Maybe this is true of the rest of the US too, I dunno. I've only lived here in NM.
Hmm I was going on statistics and hadn't thought of the American Indian thing. I guess the OP being black I was thinking mostly on that. I have heard that parts of the West the American-Indian/Native-American thing is still a big deal. Where I'm at the people who say the most hostile things against blacks are often neutral to positive on indigenous peoples. Although sometimes that positivity strikes me as being potentially patronizing. (The image that they have some genetic ability at spirituality and natural wisdom when most native peoples are just folks with families who watch sports or drink beer or whatever. Albeit a bit poorer than most people on average)
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Almost every single one of my schools were diverse. Manhattan is pretty safe. I live here.
