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Population percentage that does not self-identify as white:
Raleigh: 42%
Durham: 58%
Chapel Hill: 27%
Wake Forest: 23%
Cary: 27%
Apex: 20%
Hillsborough: 37%
Carrboro: 29%
Fuquay-Varina: 28%
Holly Springs: 20%
Knightdale: 50%
Garner: 42%
I would have never guessed Garner or Knightdale to be that high!
Population percentage that self-identify as hispanic or Latino:
Raleigh: 11%
Durham: 14%
Chapel Hill: 6%
Wake Forest: 5%
Cary: 8%
Apex: 7%
Hillsborough: 7%
Carrboro: 14%
Fuquay-Varina: 10%
Holly Springs: 6%
Knightdale: 11%
Garner: 9%
And now you know and knowing is half the battle
Nice! And I'm sure very surprising to people who thought they knew, but didn't.
Now if we could do the same thing with the other metrics, we could give the OP a complete picture.
If course, you can't put rudeness and racism into quantifiable numbers, so the OP will have to learn first hand one way or another. FWIW, I find all the cities here pretty cool in one way or another.
You know, if you want your kids not to grow up around "socialism," you might think twice about Chapel Hill. Very liberal, very progressive! Your tax dollars would pay for lots of extras for a public school system (plenty of extra funding) ... public art ... free (free!!?!) transit for everyone, there's no bus fare.
I'm not sure Chapel Hill fits your values if you want to avoid leftist communities. Clayton, Garner, Zebulon, Wendell, Smithfield, and Selma will all be more conservative.
I really get tired of this "blame the transplants" theme that I see on these North Carolina forums. Whenever someone comes along who isn't happy with North Carolina, it's either their fault, or it's the fault of those dastardly transplants. It's like we transplants are moustache-twirling villains, laughing maniacally as we set out to give North Carolina a bad name.
No. I didn't say that. I merely pointed out that we have a crapload of transplants in Cary, so saying it had to be a local is fairly ridiculous. Could be a local... could be a transplant.
I've seen just as many bigoted transplants as I've seen locals.
Wow, Fuquay is more racially diverse than Cary? Interesting. Are we going purely black white or all races blended in?
When you say Durham is head and shoulders above the rest, what do you attribute that to? The hospitals? Duke? Socio-economic programs?
This is a very interesting thread. I think the OP might be onto something with posting such ambiguous info, and causing us all to really interact.
Black-white diversity in Durham is a side effect of being a factory town for the entire 20th century. Durham wasn't some small factory town, either-- it was larger than Raleigh until 1960 (the growth of state government services helped Raleigh balloon in size after that).
The tobacco plants and textile mills hired both white and black employees, albeit they kept them mostly segregated until the 1950s. It was a good living, one of the few that blacks could have in the South before the 1970s. Such a good living that Durham's Parrish St was world-renowned as "Black Wall Street", due to the financial and insurance businesses started by blacks to serve the burgeoning african american middle class.
Modern-day diversity, such as the larger presence of Asians, is being driven by both Duke University and RTP. Latino populations are growing all over, but urban areas tend to catch more immigrants than rural areas, so Raleigh and Durham's Latino populations are growing quicker than say Garner.
Wow, what I do see is an area way more diverse than where I live now. Off to load the U-Haul! See y'all soon!
I'm kidding, but we are relocating there. However, I realized this statement might make us sound a little Beverly Hillbilly'ish'
Hey, at least you can spell "y'all" correctly, which is more than I can say for many natives! And typically it's the transplants who direct the "Beverly Hillbilly" comments towards the locals, so you're fine there, too.
Hey, at least you can spell "y'all" correctly, which is more than I can say for many natives! And typically it's the transplants who direct the "Beverly Hillbilly" comments towards the locals, so you're fine there, too.
Well, my y'all wasn't the part that made us sound BH. It was quickly packing up the "U-haul".. Glad I might fit in ok.
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Ok, I didn't read thru all of the posts here, but I recently moved to Cary from the NE and have to say we love it. (Miss the vibe of NY sometimes.) It is diverse, but there is a bit of a "rebound" feeling around here. Like, almost everyone starts out nice, but then when they realize that maybe you are not "their type", they quickly dismiss you. Some people want to stay in groups they are used to - it guess it makes them feel comfortable. But there is a "fraternity" feel to this mentality, somewhat immature.
Ewwww... to the "elements", or to anyone who is "not like us". Now this does exist around New York, but people and neighborhoods are much more blended and people learn to have a more excepting attitude because you rub shoulders with different people all the time. Many people seek out people not like them.
It's sad to me that Americans still have this attitude. There is crime everywhere. Learn to live with it. Go be a mentor and make the town a better place!
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