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While highly educated, the white population of DC is not homogeneous.
In terms of class it most certainly is homogeneous. One data point is food stamp usage, while 30% of DC Blacks are on food stamps only 1% of Whites. In Alexandria 0% of Whites are on food stamps.
...which is an astounding statistic. Here's a list of a few U.S. cities showing the educational attainment (Bachelor's or higher for the population over 25) and the median HHI among the White, non-Hispanic population.
San Francisco (70.95%/$95,011) Washington, DC (76.98%/$108,629)
Atlanta (76.16%/$84,036)
Chicago (55.99%/$68,254)
Boston (62.29%/$71,625)
New York (52.15%/$72,295)
Portland (47.58%/$55,403)
Philadelphia (34.80%/$50,164)
Austin (59.29%/$63,670)
Los Angeles (51.8%/$67,252)
Seattle (63.8%/$71,393)
Houston (52.8%/$71,908)
DC leads the pack in educational attainment (and in median HHI by a large margin). This got me to thinking though. Who are the white people in DC that don't have college degrees? I had to ponder this question for a while since I honestly can't say I've ever met a white person in Washington, DC who didn't have a college degree.
Seeing how Atlanta is less then a percentage point lower than DC I'll tell you based on Atlanta it sure doesn't seem like most of the white guys here have degrees. I hang around mixed crowd though.
In terms of class it most certainly is homogeneous. One data point is food stamp usage, while 30% of DC Blacks are on food stamps only 1% of Whites. In Alexandria 0% of Whites are on food stamps.
Seeing how Atlanta is less then a percentage point lower than DC I'll tell you based on Atlanta it sure doesn't seem like most of the white guys here have degrees. I hang around mixed crowd though.
It's actually about 13 percentage points lower than DC. But I don't know why you would be surprised Atlanta is that high, unless you consider everything in Metro Atlanta to be "Atlanta." In the city of Atlanta, all of the white neighborhoods are affluent. There aren't that many working-class people in Buckhead, Midtown, Inman Park, Ansley Park, Little Five Points, Druid Hills, etc.
It's actually about 13 percentage points lower than DC. But I don't know why you would be surprised Atlanta is that high, unless you consider everything in Metro Atlanta to be "Atlanta." In the city of Atlanta, all of the white neighborhoods are affluent. There aren't that many working-class people in Buckhead, Midtown, Inman Park, Ansley Park, Little Five Points, Druid Hills, etc.
13%?
San Francisco (70.95%/$95,011)
Washington, DC (76.98%/$108,629)
Atlanta (76.16%/$84,036)
Chicago (55.99%/$68,254)
Boston (62.29%/$71,625)
New York (52.15%/$72,295)
Portland (47.58%/$55,403)
Philadelphia (34.80%/$50,164)
Austin (59.29%/$63,670)
Los Angeles (51.8%/$67,252)
Seattle (63.8%/$71,393)
Houston (52.8%/$71,908)
San Francisco (70.95%/$95,011)
Washington, DC (76.98%/$108,629)
Atlanta (76.16%/$84,036)
Chicago (55.99%/$68,254)
Boston (62.29%/$71,625)
New York (52.15%/$72,295)
Portland (47.58%/$55,403)
Philadelphia (34.80%/$50,164)
Austin (59.29%/$63,670)
Los Angeles (51.8%/$67,252)
Seattle (63.8%/$71,393)
Houston (52.8%/$71,908)
Is that info wrong then?
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Originally Posted by BajanYankee
I misled you all with inaccurate information. 89.4% of DC's non-Hispanic, white population has a bachelor's degree or higher.
Unfortunately earning a degree from these Ivy institutions doesn't make them any more wiser, nicer, polite, or any less stuck up. A ton of White (Can I say that on here? since the mods here are so touchy like glass?) are much like anyone else in DC. Earning a ton of money and being an a-s-s for it. I am surprised that something that says "white" is allowed on here as opposed if someone mentions another race people.
CDC director with PHd was charged with bestiliaty and child molestation. I won't mention the W word. Like I said being more educated or being a doctor doesn't make anyone less criminal or better. Esp in this area the docs here have no ethics at all.
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Originally Posted by coldbliss
Never mind, DC. How did Atlanta get 76.16 percent? Higher than Seattle or San Francisco? Huh?
Atlanta is not exactly the professional creative hub that you find in the coastal cities. When I mean "creative", I am talking about computer engineering, *medical science research, architecture design and so on. The Atlanta region is home to major Fortune 500 global corporations such as Coca Cola, UPS, Delta Airlines, CNN-Turner Media, Georgia-Pacific and such. Could it be that college-educated white people have an overwhelming number of corporate jobs? Probably.
But I have to look at the methodology. Is this survey counting bachelor's degrees from private, corporate institutions such as Phoenix University, Strayer, DeVry, Kaplan etc? Bachelor's degrees from fly-by-night schools where you take online courses with no interaction with instructors or fellow class mates? People can earn "bachelors" degrees from those places in accounting, IT programming, business marketing--stuff that is in demand by large and small business enterprises.
I guarantee that the white workforce in DC earns an overwhelming number of college degrees from far more rigorous, traditional academic institutions such as the Ivies and elite state universities. You can stack the 76 % Atlantans vs. the 77 % DC white college graduates and you will find a much wider berth with SAT scores, foreign language knowledge, AP courses completed at HS level, merit scholarships and so forth...in my opinion. DC college grads got those skills.
*BTW...I know Atlanta has the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and this would influence the number well-paid white college graduates in the "creative" sector. But the CDC is a small fish when it comes to economic impact and employment totals compared to the corporate behemoths dotting the Atlanta suburbs.
Last edited by cra2ybeautiful; 03-14-2014 at 08:21 PM..
No. I just botched DC. Everything else is still the same. For example, for San Francisco, there are 200,307 non-Hispanic whites with a Bachelor's or higher out of a total non-Hispanic white population of 281,917. That's 70.95 percent. I went back and double checked and the others are all correct. Funny that I would botch the calculation for DC when DC is the subject of the thread. Charge it to manual error. But the current numbers for DC are correct.
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