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Say we don’t count hispanic as white for this exercise. And not even going on the numbers just how it seems.
Least white I think a lot of people who haven’t been to Houston recently might be surprised on how diverse it is. Maybe there was a day decades ago where it was mostly cowboy types running around, no longer. And Los Angeles are whites a minority even now in that metro?
Most white for me seems like one of the midwestern metros. Outside of the black populations the rest seems all white. Or maybe Portland/Seattle. Boston if you wanted to include all of New England in that, maybe that one. North of Boston might be as white as it gets in the east.
Seattle and San Francisco are definitely two cities that seem whiter than their respective metro areas.
I was going to say KC is pretty white but the metro area actually has decent amounts of minorities in most areas. KCK has a large Hispanic population and Johnson County has a fairly sizable Asian and Hispanic population. Still it’s fairly white overall.
Some metro areas have a minority dominated core and overwhelmingly white outskirts, while others have a moderate degree of diversity that is fairly balanced between city and suburbs. Perhaps this correlates to the difference between perceived and actual diversity, since visitors to a metro are more likely to spend time in the core sections, unless they have a specific reason to go to a particular suburban area.
Another complicating factor is that in the highest profile areas of many cities, a large share of the people visible in public are not necessarily local residents. Drawing conclusions about Nashville's demographics from Lower Broadway, Las Vegas' from the Strip (for instance), or the major city of your choice in the vicinity of a stadium on game day can thus be very misleading.
Regarding the large metros of the Pacific Northwest, the 2020 Census found that Portland is over 30% nonwhite, and Seattle over 40%. These metro areas may have a sizable white population in their urban cores (along with nonwhites from a variety of backgrounds), but they don't have major suburban communities with a truly negligible minority population like Jefferson County, MO (near St. Louis) or the outskirts of Erie County, NY (around Buffalo). It can be very revealing to look at the actual data and not just the surface level impressions of a metro.
Knoxville and it's metro are extremely White, the city is 72% White (Whiter than Portland, Seattle, and Pittsburgh) and the metro is over 87% White, one of the Whitest metro areas in the country. Portland, Maine and it's metro is also very White
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