Do You Want the Baltimore Red Line or the Washington Purple Line built?? (Bowie: quality of life, live)

[HandsUpThumbsDown]

Originally Posted by molukai

I am saying that I am against paying for the two lines being posted on this forum thread. I am also saying that *if* a line had to be built, rather than the two being discussed I'd prefer one to Waldorf.

How about you learn some actual English comprehension? Or maybe trolling is your forte. If the latter is the case, bravo.

OK, it's fully understood now. You would prefer a line of little utility that has no hope of being built due to cost.

[molukai]

Originally Posted by HandsUpThumbsDown

You would prefer a line of little utility that has no hope of being built due to cost.

You got it, dude. Especially the 'no hope of being built' part.

[westsideboy]

Originally Posted by HandsUpThumbsDown

OK, it's fully understood now. You would prefer a line of little utility that has no hope of being built due to cost.

This is the same guy who was trying to argue that central Ohio was more diverse than Montgomery County. I would take his comments with the grain of salt...even with the 6 college degrees.

[molukai]

Heh. I was saying the Columbus area is more diverse than Montgomery County. I still hold to it, especially since your own diversity map backed up my statement with the big heavy red mark representing that area. Just because there is more diversity over a wider area with MoCo according to that map, it does not necessarily mean that MoCo is more diverse. The map itself is suspect as it doesn't distinguish true diversity; just because a community is half white and half black doesn't make it diverse.

[westsideboy]

Originally Posted by molukai

Heh. I was saying the Columbus area is more diverse than Montgomery County. I still hold to it, especially since your own diversity map backed up my statement with the big heavy red mark representing that area. Just because there is more diversity over a wider area with MoCo according to that map, it does not necessarily mean that MoCo is more diverse. The map itself is suspect as it doesn't distinguish true diversity; just because a community is half white and half black doesn't make it diverse.

Here are the raw numbers

Columbus, Ohio

White: 61.5% (Non-Hispanic Whites: 59.3%)
Black or African American: 28.0%
Native American: 0.3%
Asian: 4.1% (1.3% Indian, 0.8% Chinese, 0.3% Korean, 0.2% Vietnamese, 0.2% Japanese, 0.2% Filipino, 0.2% Cambodian, 0.2% Laotian)
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander: 0.1%
Two or more races: 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino (of any race): 5.6%[63] (3.3% Mexican, 0.6% Puerto Rican, 0.2% Salvadoran, 0.2% Dominican)

Columbus, Ohio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

116,000 of the city's residents are foreign-born out of total population of about 800,000 or roughly 14%

Montgomery County, MD:


57.5% White
17.2% Black
17.0% Hispanic or Latino (5.4% Salvadoran, 1.5% Mexican, 1.2% Peruvian, 1.1% Guatemalan)
13.9% Asian
0.4% Native American
0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander
4.0% Two or more races
6.9% Other races

Montgomery County, Maryland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

31% of Montgomery County's population is foreign born.

http://www.inforum.umd.edu/mdimmigra...inalreport.pdf

So, Columbus is a mighty diverse place, but still not as diverse as Montgomery County, MD. In fact if you compare the white + black population, which you claim skew the results, for both Columbus and Montgomery you get:

Columbus white + black population = 89.5%

Montgomery County white + black population = 74.7%

Columbus is still less diverse. (Please also note all I did for this number is add white + black, I didn't even separate out white Hispanics. If I had, the disparity showing the greater diversity of Montgomery County using this measure (your idea) would be even greater.) If you expand the numbers to all of Franklin County, OH, you see less diversity.

So anyway you cut it, anyway you look at it, any objective numbers you examine, show Montgomery County being more diverse than Columbus. If you disagree, show me some numbers to back up your assertions.

[molukai]

If we go strictly by those stats, then yes you are right Columbus is less diverse - albeit barely - than Montgomery County. But it is a far cry from what was being said by you guys on the other thread, stating that Columbus was 'white bread' and all that crap.

And by the way, I am shocked to see that the stats say that MoCo has such a high percentage of Asians. I have barely seen any Asians in MoCo (or DC for that matter) except in areas outside of known small Asian community areas. DC for example has Chinatown, but it's basically just a white tourist town with a whole bunch of Chinese characters written for the names of the stores there.

[westsideboy]

Originally Posted by molukai

If we go strictly by those stats, then yes you are right Columbus is less diverse - albeit barely - than Montgomery County. But it is a far cry from what was being said by you guys on the other thread, stating that Columbus was 'white bread' and all that crap.

And by the way, I am shocked to see that the stats say that MoCo has such a high percentage of Asians. I have barely seen any Asians in MoCo (or DC for that matter) except in areas outside of known small Asian community areas. DC for example has Chinatown, but it's basically just a white tourist town with a whole bunch of Chinese characters written for the names of the stores there.

That is all I am saying. If you have issues with other posters calling calling Columbus "white bread" take it up with them. It wasn't me that said it, I all did was post the facts to show the comparative diversity of the two communities being discussed.

//www.city-data.com/forum/washi...-county-7.html

[molukai]

I'm not taking anything up with them -- you're the one that's purposefully calling me out here, which is why I replied in kind.

[rsh56]

Originally Posted by HandsUpThumbsDown

For the record I'm for regional funding of transit projects. I would support a regional transit district for the Baltimore and DC Metro areas as opposed to statewide taxation.

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[InvaderBryce]

How'd we get from the Purple & Red Lines to race statistics of Columbus, Ohio?