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In my experience, this is because they don't live next to many minorities. Racial tension seems to be greater wherever minorities live in greater numbers, with some exceptions.
Seattle has fewer ethnic enclaves in general compared to many cities - to an extent, this is due to the lower number of minorities as a whole. But throughout the city, you'll find those minorities generally living in the same areas as white people with more or less no tension at all.
Well having people live in neighborhoods that are more segregated doesn't have to mean the place isn't integrated at all. It's not really cut and dry. Here in Chicago the neighborhoods are fairly segregated, but it's not like you don't see thousands of blacks, asians, whites and hispanics mixing downtown and on buses, trains and in stores every day. People work in retail in different areas, etc.
As far as where it is true though, I think by far the most segregated areas where you only see one race are the black areas, followed by the hispanic areas, then white and asian. So I suppose as a white person I'd probably think of Chicago as a lot more integrated than a black person on the south side.
The OP list and Huge Foodie 215 lists were unbelievably asinine, this list is much better.
The Northeast has the most poorly integrated cities. Baltimore and Detroit I'd consider to be the real worst, they're both as segregated as they were in the 50's. DC is definitely there too, with the evermoving line of white gentrifiers being the only diversity in DC neighborhoods. Montgomery County is very diverse, forget the rest of the entire area where you'd walk down the street and think the 50's never ended as far as race.
No sir, it is your list that is asinine thank you.
You kidding me? Houston is one of the most integrated city in the US.
And apart from one or two burbs the city itself is much more integrated than the burbs.
You know not what you are talking about.
Oh yes I do. I'm from H-town. Although I haven't lived there proper since 1998, so I dunno, maybe things have changed now. In my childhood I lived on the northside (cavalcade, jensen, irvington), 3rd ward, and 5th ward. Yes I know these are the ghetto areas, but even aside from these parts, Houston proper was segregated as hell. At there were mostly only blacks and Mexicans. And the two groups never mingled. The only place in Houston proper where you even see whites in large quantities are the Galleria, University Place, downtown, and Texas Medical Center. When I ride public transit in any other city, you see people from different backgrounds. In Houston, when you ride the bus, for the most part all you see is black folk, and some Latinos. However on the Park and Ride buses in Houston, all you see are white folk.
Funny. Even though Seattle is lily-white compared to other cities I've lived in, when I lived there, I found that racial tolerance and acceptance was exemplary; probably the closest thing to a colorblind city that I've ever been to.
I agree! It's crazy how well 99% of the people get along up here and intermingle in their social groups. Especially the younger folks.
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Worst: WA DC, Seattle. Seattle bus drivers are the worst. They are hostile to African American passengers.
And coincidentally the example I was going to give is this...
I am a Seattle bus driver, relatively new hire. In my "class" of 21 trainees we had 1 from Egypt, 1 from India, 1 Japanese-Peruvian, 3 who were from or of East African descent, three African-Americans, and me, a Mexican-American, and maybe one or two I'm forgetting who were not white, some were Christian, some were Muslim, some were whatever, men, women, etc., some were Washington natives, others from back east, and so forth. We were best of friends by the end of training. Truly a diverse workforce, and not just my training class, but all of the 2,500 transit drivers in King County. You simply cannot say that many people are ALL racist to one group of minorities, especially considering how many minority drivers there are, racial and otherwise.
Oh yes I do. I'm from H-town. Although I haven't lived there proper since 1998, so I dunno, maybe things have changed now. In my childhood I lived on the northside (cavalcade, jensen, irvington), 3rd ward, and 5th ward. Yes I know these are the ghetto areas, but even aside from these parts, Houston proper was segregated as hell. At there were mostly only blacks and Mexicans. And the two groups never mingled. The only place in Houston proper where you even see whites in large quantities are the Galleria, University Place, downtown, and Texas Medical Center. When I ride public transit in any other city, you see people from different backgrounds. In Houston, when you ride the bus, for the most part all you see is black folk, and some Latinos. However on the Park and Ride buses in Houston, all you see are white folk.
Houston is a city that is more segregated by income than race. The areas of Houston that you lived in are considerably low income, and these areas are almost always solidly minority, everywhere in the nation. Give me some examples of non-gentrified neighborhoods where that isn't true. I'm sure there are some exceptions, but they aren't the rule.
All of those higher class areas have a significant amount of minorities. I used to ride the bus years ago, and I saw virtually every race you could think of.
The fact of the matter is that in most of Houston (particularly the SW side), the level of integration that we have is hard to beat, and you're solely mistaken if you think we're one of the worst. Have you ever been to Dallas, Atlanta, or Detroit? Your isolated perception is not necessarily what is real. People always have an exaggerated opinion of the places they've lived, be it negative or positive.
As much as I love St. Louis, I'll have to say it probably nears the top of this list. In St. Louis and surrounds, you have the mostly black areas and the mostly white areas. Although a few areas / neighborhoods are seeing some degree of integration, the STL has a long way to go before this is fully achieved.
For those who like to see pretty visualizations, Eric Fischer's flickr has his 2010 Census Race Maps here. They are pretty fascinating.
He also has the 2000 maps up in a different set, so you can compare and contrast cities as they've changed in the last 10 years.
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