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^as you can see on this map, that's far away from either SJ, SF or Oakland... there really isn't a particular part of the bay area other than maybe the far south or the far north (and Marin County, but that's another story lol) that's a lot less diverse than the other areas.
Most diverse metropolitan areas (Using 2008 American Community Survey numbers)
Alright, since I'm such a stat head, I've decided to make a thread calculating the statistical diversity of each of our top metropolitan areas to finally put this argument to rest.
What is the most diverse metropolitan area?
(All data is from American FactFinder)
For the 2000 census, the US census released a diversity index (http://www.census.gov/population/cen...ensr01-104.pdf) calculating the statistical diversity of each county in the United States based on the 8 broad ethno-racial demographic groups seen in the census. If you look on the 4th page of the link above, the census demographers use simple mathematics to determine how they got the index to begin with:
1) Square the percentage of each group analyzed
2) Subtract that number from 1.00 (total diversity)
The range of diversity is from .00 (no diversity at all) to 1.00 (total diversity). For the sake of making our lives easier, I will only analyze five statistically significant groups: i) White Non-Hispanics ii) Black Non-Hispanics iii) Hispanics iv) Asian Non-Hispanics v)Two or more races
If you want to calculate it based on diversity within groups (like Italian Americans, Irish Americans, Indian Americans, etc.), just add those percentages based on the American Community Survey Link above and do the same thing.
TOP 11 LIST OF MOST DIVERSE METROPOLITAN AREAS IN TERMS OF RACIAL GROUPS (out of the top 11 populated metro areas): 1) San Francisco (.687)
2) Houston (.676)
3) Los Angeles (.664)
4) Miami (.663)
5) Dallas (.618)
6) Chicago (.605)
7) Washington (.604)
8) Atlanta (.599)
9) New York (.595)
10) Philadelphia (.494)
11) Boston (.346)
There. If you want to calculate your metro area/city/county/etc. or add more variables, just do what I did in the above. Just remember that the formula is
TOP 11 LIST OF MOST DIVERSE METROPOLITAN AREAS IN TERMS OF RACIAL GROUPS (out of the top 11 populated metro areas): 1) San Francisco (.687)
2) Houston (.676)
3) Los Angeles (.664)
4) Miami (.663)
5) Dallas (.618)
6) Chicago (.605)
7) Washington (.604)
8) Atlanta (.599)
9) New York (.595)
10) Philadelphia (.494)
11) Boston (.346)
The bay area wouldn't be the bay area without all the diversity... a ****load of movements related to the diversity have started here.
Not the least of which including:
- Black Panthers (Oakland)
- The AIM (American Indian Movement) (San Francisco)
- United Farm Workers (Cesar Chavez) (San Jose)
And many others... now obviously NY can say the same but I don't get why the bay area is so under estimated... it's by far the most diverse region in the west coast.
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Most diverse metropolitan areas (Using 2008 American Community Survey numbers) 
