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In Duluth, Minnesota, there are no ethnic enclaves. None. Zip. No Chinatown, no Koreatown, no Little Addis. This is a very homogeneous white-bread Northern European city with little diversity.
However, the working-class neighborhood of Gary is known to have a large population of Slavic descent.
In the Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area) there are a few of what could be called "ethnic enclaves". There's a famous high-rise apartment complex, the "Riverside Plaza", that has been called "Little Mogadishu" in recent years, after being the "Crack Stacks" throughout the 1990s. Around it there are several Somali-run businesses, East African markets, even some indoor "suuks" with numerous stands selling everything from fabric to samosas. There's a long strip of Southeast Asian (especially Hmong) businesses on University Ave., with many Hmong and other SE Asians living in the vicinity. There are also "Asian markets", which kind of resemble perpetual state fairs, except practically everyone there is Asian. They have all kinds of vendors selling everything from traditional Hmong courtship ritual paraphernalia to vegetables to food and drink vendors hawking larb, som tam, pork belly, Hmong sausages, and bubble tea. Finally, there are Hispanic neighborhoods (Minneapolis and St. Paul have a large concentration of people from a certain city in Morelos state). Many of MSP's immigrants from a variety of countries seem to be concentrated in certain areas. For example, on Lake Street within a matter of blocks you'll find a Starbucks with Somali on the menu, a gas station that also sells traditional Mexican antojitos, and an Ethiopian restaurant with kitfo (raw cubed beef) among its many options. So not all, or even most immigrants live in self-segregated neighborhoods - many simply go where the rent is cheapest.
There is a significant Somali populace along Cleveland Ave in Columbus Ohio's northeast side. There are strip malls, clothes shops , groceries, restaurants that are Somali owned and patronized along this avenue.
Chinatown: South of downtown. Tiny by the standards of the ones in New York and San Francisco, but nevertheless a concentrated district of Chinese restaurants and shops and a significant number of actual Chinese residents as well.
New Chinatown: Centered on Argyle Street in Uptown on the north side. The name is a misleading because most of the restaurants and businesses are southeast Asian, i.e. Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian. A significant number of residents in this area hail from these countries as well.
Little India: A mile long strip of restaurants and businesses on Devon Street on the far north side of the city. Absolutely ground zero for the Indian/Pakistani community of Chicagoland.
Koreatown: Centered on Lawrence Avenue in the Albany Park neighborhood on the north side. Lots of Korean restaurants and businesses in a half mile stretch.
Little Village and Pilsen: Historically, the major Mexican residence and business districts. Over the past 20 years, Mexican enclaves have sprung up all over the north and south sides, but these two are still the major Mexican districts.
Humboldt Park/Logan Square: The Puerto Rican district in the city, on the northwest side. Logan Square is gentrifying, so the Puerto Rican influence there is diminishing, but still present.
Some of the enclaves are historic and now no longer house many residents of the ethnicity in question, but still retain restaurants and businesses, and sometimes a cultural center or museum.
Little Italy: On the near south side, centered on Taylor Street.
Greektown: On the near west side, on Halsted Street.
Andersonville: Historically, a Swedish immigrant neighborhood on the far north side. Now all that remain are a Swedish history museum and a few restaurants and bakeries on Clark Street.
Rogers Park: Historically, a Jewish immigrant neighborhood. There are still some synagogues and Hebrew schools and a small number of orthodox residents who live near these institutions.
South Omaha is the only true ethnic enclave left in the city. Originally by European immigrants moving to Omaha to work at what would become the largest stockyards in the world has now become the hispanic enclave in the city.
Here is a link to the photo gallery of the main street of the neighborhood.
In Duluth, Minnesota, there are no ethnic enclaves. None. Zip. No Chinatown, no Koreatown, no Little Addis. This is a very homogeneous white-bread Northern European city with little diversity.
So Duluth is an enclave of Northern Europeans? That is cool. There are few such enclaves in the world outside northern Europe and the upper Midwest of the U.S. What does white-bread have to do with it (or was that some kind of racist overtone)?
Little India: A mile long strip of restaurants and businesses on Devon Street on the far north side of the city. Absolutely ground zero for the Indian/Pakistani community of Chicagoland.
Rogers Park: Historically, a Jewish immigrant neighborhood. There are still some synagogues and Hebrew schools and a small number of orthodox residents who live near these institutions.
And the cool thing is that the proximity of the two above means that there are parts where you have orthodox Jews, women in Muslim head scarfs, and Hindus right in the same area. Muslim bookstore right next to the Kosher Bakery on one side and a Russian book/cd store on the other.
So Duluth is an enclave of Northern Europeans? That is cool. There are few such enclaves in the world outside northern Europe and the upper Midwest of the U.S. What does white-bread have to do with it (or was that some kind of racist overtone)?
Maybe Duluth is stale.
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