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^^Those historical Providence population figures are always stunning to me. How exactly did we house 250,000 people in Providence? Anyone know? Sandsonik? MR2448? QuilterChick? Ok, I know West Elmwood was razed for the industrial park. I know the hospitals have expanded. I know Brown has expanded. But I don't think the sum of these reasons equates to the loss of enough dwellings to house 70,000.
Well, consider the highway, route 95 blasted a considerable swath through the center of the entire city requiring hundreds of homes to be demolished. Also, if you consider all the undocumented citizens today, I suspect Providence is well over the 250K mark.
Those aren't cities. According to the source, Revere, MA would be #1 and Cranston #3 in 2000; but I'm pretty sure Cranston was #1 at one point in time, maybe that has long passed. Could be just an urban legend, IDK.
Actually they are cities, but in any case the metric is percentage of Italian Americans, not number of Italian Americans. Revere only has 35%
Lincoln has a mix of French, Irish, Polish, Portuguese, etc. It covers pretty much everything. He doesn't seem to care for Italians much, therefore he might feel outnumbered in Creeanstun. Cranston always did have a Jewish community though, some Irish and Greek...
A place does't have to be racially diverse to be ethnically diverse.
I'm talking about ethnic diversity. Look at the city data page, Cranston has much more ethnic diversity than Lincoln. 28 groups listed for Lincoln, 56 for Cranston.
Well, consider the highway, route 95 blasted a considerable swath through the center of the entire city requiring hundreds of homes to be demolished. Also, if you consider all the undocumented citizens today, I suspect Providence is well over the 250K mark.
Are you saying Providence has 70K undocumented citizens???
Actually they are cities, but in any case the metric is percentage of Italian Americans, not number of Italian Americans. Revere only has 35%
No, Johnston and North Providence are both towns last I checked. And yes, I was talking about percentage. In sheer numbers it would probably go to NYC, by default.
I'm talking about ethnic diversity. Look at the city data page, Cranston has much more ethnic diversity than Lincoln. 28 groups listed for Lincoln, 56 for Cranston.
There is no absolute way to define or measure ethnic diversity, number of groups listed only tells part of the story. That poster clearly doesn't like Italians, and in Cranston Italians certainly do have somewhat of a dominance. Lincoln might be more evenly distributed among other groups, that is probably what he meant. I'm not going to loose sleep over it.
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. According to the source, Revere, MA would be #1 and Cranston #3 in 2000; but I'm pretty sure Cranston was #1 at one point in time, maybe that has long passed. Could be just an urban legend, IDK.
