Diversity in ethnicities? (Denver, Aurora, Pueblo: universities, gated, live)

[pangirl]

visited some beautiful parts of colorado, but didn't notice many african-americans & very few if any native american indians, what is that population group like in paonia, hotchkiss? are there any towns where there are native americans or african americans?

[green_mariner]

Were you in Denver? If not, that probably explains why.

[Charles]

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[EscapeCalifornia]

Originally Posted by pangirl

african americans?

I saw a lot in Aurora.

[jazzlover]

Paonia and Hotchkiss, like just about all of rural Colorado, is predominantly Anglo, with a significant Hispanic population. Outside of Colorado's metro areas, there are few blacks in the state. When I lived in western Colorado years back, you could count the black families that lived in the county where I resided on one hand. They got along just fine in the community from everything that I ever heard or saw. Oddly enough, one black family I knew had difficulties when their children (all honor students) went to college at larger universities. Those kids faced discrimination in college--not from whites, but from blacks. Other blacks called them "oreos," meaning they were "black on the outside but white on the inside."

Most of Colorado's Native American population (outside of the metro areas) is concentrated in southwest Colorado, in proximity to the Southern Ute and Mountain Ute Reservations. Montezuma, LaPlata, and--to a certain extent--Archuleta counties have fairly substantial Native American populations. Also, just over the state line into New Mexico from those counties are the Navajo and Jicarilla Apache Reservations.

Probably the most ethnically diverse city in the state, so far as the number of different national heritages represented in the population, is Pueblo--a result of the number of immigrants who migrated there many years ago to work at the CF&I steel mill.

[laideeBdiamond]

Areas with decent amounts of African-Americas: Montbello, Aurora, Denver

[hello-world]

Originally Posted by pangirl

visited some beautiful parts of colorado, but didn't notice many african-americans & very few if any native american indians, what is that population group like in paonia, hotchkiss? are there any towns where there are native americans or african americans?

colorado is both rather homogeneous, and rather segregated. even denver, perhaps the most "diverse" (which, basically, it is not very, relative to other cities it's size in the US) in the state, with the greatest numbers of african americans. very few african americans relative to most larger cities, so, your observation was not off. plenty of mexican and some native american, but it seems these groups tend to not mix and mingle too much. there's not a new york city subway or street anywhere to be seen in colorado. SW colorado is populated by more native american people (there are several reservations around the "4 corners"), pueblo maybe more hispanic and slightly more international than most of colorado beyond maybe vail, boulder, denver, or ft collins. but even these places, like much of colorado, are overall VERY homogenized, caucasian, middle-american except for some generally segregated pockets of hispanic and native american.