What ethnic groups makeup Washington DC and Baltimore?

[BigCityDreamer]

I should have mentioned the list I made does not include embassy people or diplomats. They are from all walks of life - friends, neighbors, schools, universities, workplaces, places of worship, hobbies, etc.

But I've also lived in the area for 4 decades, so that's a long time to meet all those different people living here.

[Tom Lennox 70]

I live in Baltimore County and am also somewhat familiar with Montgomery. Baltimore City is mostly black with small numbers of whites, both the blue collar whites who are native to the city and the new yuppies in the areas by the harbor, many of whom come from other parts of Maryland or from other states. Baltimore City has small white ethnic communities like Italians and Greeks.....there is actually a Greektown in Bmore and also Little Italy. Also some Polish Americans too. I live in eastern Baltimore County which is mostly white and not very ethnic.....most people here are just unhyphenated American, though some do occassionally mention their Irish, Italian, or Polish roots but everyone is really jsut American with some blacks too, both more established blacks who have always lived here since the factory days, and the ghetto blacks who moved recently out of Baltimore City and there of course is large difference between them. There is a small but growing Hispanic population in parts of the city and there are major concerns in the suburbs involving illegal immigration. Baltimore County got the most signatures in the petition to stop the illegals from getting in-state tuition in Maryland. There is a large Korean American population in Catonsville and Ellicott City and a large Jewish population in PIkesville. Chinese Americans and Indians are not very numerous around Baltimore but its not unusual to see them though.

The DC area has much more immigrants from other places. I can go for a week in Baltimore County and not hear a word in a foreign langauge but you can't go a single day like that in Montgomery County. You have a lot of Hispanics, Asians, and Indians and many Arabs and Muslims too many less assimilated folks. MoCo does welcome illegal aliens with open arms, as does PG County. Montgomery College gives in-county tuition to illegal aliens. PG County has many Hispanics too especially around Greenbelt and Langley Park. There are also many illegal immigrants in Virginia but local jurisdictions there like Prince WIlliam County for example are cracking down so many have actually moved to DC and Maryland.