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Demographically, does your city/town have a East-side-west-side mentality, or north-side-south-side?
My hometown was very demo-uniform, but the two grade schools were east and west on the same street, so in high school. kids were from our end (east), or strangers from the west.
Houston doesn't really have a side. It's far to big, but if you melted it down it's a East-West split with East Houston being Industrial and West Houston being much more middle class and bougie and being the home to the most business districts and wealthiest neighborhoods. While West Houston is certainly whiter than East Houston theirs's probably more black and Asian people in West Houston, and equal amounts of Hispanics if not more in West Houston.
Katy has a North-South Split. The Northern part is plurality, almost majority Hispanic and middle to lower middle class with a few wealthier areas here and there, while the Southern half is plurality white and almost entirely middle class and upper-middle class.
Oklahoma City is interesting because it has both. Historically the river split the north and the south. The wealth was north and the working class was south.
Then came the racial divide came. East side was black but that was all on the north side. South side was working class whites and west was white.
Now it is southside hispanic. Northeast side is black. Lower Northwest side is mixed but becoming more of a black neighborhood. Northwest side is white.
Neither. There is a west Little Rock and a southwest Little Rock, but there is no south Little Rock. There is a North Little Rock, but that's a separate city. There is no part of Little Rock that people call north side or north Little Rock. There used to be a black neighborhood called east end, and I guess it's still there, but it's not residential any more, just warehouses and such.
The most affluent neighborhoods are north of I-630 while South of 630 is more working class and minority, so if you go by that then maybe north/south.
Neither. There is a west Little Rock and a southwest Little Rock, but there is no south Little Rock. There is a North Little Rock, but that's a separate city. There is no part of Little Rock that people call north side or north Little Rock. There used to be a black neighborhood called east end, and I guess it's still there, but it's not residential any more, just warehouses and such.
The most affluent neighborhoods are north of I-630 while South of 630 is more working class and minority, so if you go by that then maybe north/south.
Little Rock is actually oriented towards downtown. North of downtown is a different city. South of downtown is undeveloped, which explains why there is a west and a southwest but not a north or south. East of downtown is geographically small; mostly industrial and the airport.
LA has a bunch of regions that have different demographics. Probably the most common split is Westside (Slight majority, or possibly now a plurality white, with large number of Hispanic and Asian Residents), Eastside (>90% Hispanic), and South LA (Majority Hispanic, with a large African American minority).
Central LA, which sits between all three and contains several iconic LA neighborhoods like Hollywood, Silver Lake, and Koreatown, is more mixed and better reflects the average demographics of the city. It is plurality to slight majority Hispanic, with large white and Asian minorities, and is almost the same percent African American as the city as a whole.
Generally speaking, the ATL metro is divided into the affluent north and everything else on the southside. There are exceptions, but in general it holds true
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