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I don't think you will have a problem in Wantagh or any town for that matter. Each experience is individual and most people are accepting. Every town has accepting types and racist types. Nobody can make a statement that a specific town is a certain way...there are 100's to 1000's of people in each town. This board can't speak for each person in the town...only demographics (you can find racists in "liberal" towns too).
Find an area you like and move there. As long as you are quiet, neat, and a nice neighbor, most people won't care what your race is (or at least they won't make it an issue).
Gpsma isn't calling the entire south shore racist. I grew up in the area he refers to, and many residents there want to live amongst people like themselves. I can't speak specifically for Wantagh, but I have to be truthful about Massapequa. Even my old HS is still one of the whitest high schools on LI.
A cross was burned on the front lawn of a black family a few blocks from my parent's Massapequa house. It was in the later 1970's,the action was extreme, but things haven't changed all that much.
Honesty is the best policy.
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I don't know why you think I'm attacking you but I am not. I am simply saying that the South Shore is not a bastion of liberal diversity. I don't think having a wife who is half hispanic exactly makes your family stand out in the lily whiteness of Massapequa.
My mom's 100% Hispanic with lily white skin and dark hair. She blended in well.
Gpsma isn't calling the entire south shore racist. I grew up in the area he refers to, and many residents there want to live amongst people like themselves. I can't speak specifically for Wantagh, but I have to be truthful about Massapequa. Even my old HS is still one of the whitest high schools on LI.
A cross was burned on the front lawn of a black family a few blocks from my parent's Massapequa house. It was in the later 1970's,the action was extreme, but things haven't changed all that much.
Honesty is the best policy.
oh yea, a black family rented out a house across the street from me and someone shot thier windows with bullets and they moved out the next day!
I grew up in East Massapequa (portion in the Amityville school district). And I can tell you that there were times you'd definetly get a sense of being "unwelcomed" when venturing into the "lily whiteness" (just quoting gpsma!) of Massapequa proper and places like Seaford and Wantagh. Now this isn't all the time and I had friends in those areas, but there were times you'd definetly get the sense from certain people in those areas that you were out of place.
It's 2010, live where you want to. We had a pile of white trash living next door, it was the first time I ever smelled crack in my life.
Then a black family moved it, they could not be nicer.
I don't' think you would have any problems whatsoever.
Wantagh is very conservative, and maybe a little stuck-up (in it's own, quiet way) but I don't think it's racist at all. There have been major problems with race and ethnicity on LI in the last few years, but Nassau has gotten a lot more diverse....so even though Wantagh is pretty much all white, it's nothing shocking to see Indian, Hispanic, black, Asian, etc. families on a daily basis. I've never heard of anyone having problems.
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