How racially integrated is your neighborhood?

[ringmastery]

[slackmaster]

1. Race, ethnicity, age, gender identity

All quite well integrated.

[Mr. McD]

2. A lot of Asian's and Hispanic's

White's are a minority.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. Homo Sapiens for every possible taste here (nt)

[billbuckhead]

17. Cheshire Bridge-Lenox Rd one of the most diverse in America

For restaurants, this neighborhood has Ethiopian, Lebanese, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, Cuban, Russian, Greek, French, Italian, plus a Jr Varsity and the Colonade, a famous restaurant for old style southern cooking. That's just one aspect of it's diversity.

[eyesroll]

4. Age, gender and income are well integrated...but...

The neighborhood is overwhelmingly white, with a growing Hispanic population.

It's otherwise a diverse few blocks -- we've got houses worth $90,000 and houses worth $210,000 (which is still below the county median, I think); some of the houses at all price points are duplexes and triplexes. There are young couples and families, older empty nesters, retirees, student renters. Engineers, bus mechanics, teachers, unemployed. A little bit of everything.

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Not very, but a few of us have broken through the hegemony of the

very segregated community that is my neighborhood, so it's slowly becoming integrated.

Now the neighborhood has a small sampling of American white, African Americans, and a number of Asians, most of whom seem to actually have come here from Asia - mostly Japanese and Korean. Seems like the only ones from foreign countries moving into the neighborhood are the ones from Asia. Haven't come across, say, any Germans or Nigerians. And of the ones who are breaking the racial barrier of the neighborhood, they're mostly younger and single, or partnered, generally still students or just starting out in life. I haven't seen any children from the newbies yet - not that they might not be around, but they're pretty darn few if they exist.

[corporatewhore]

6. mainly hispanic/african american withsome whites

[Maddy McCall]

7. I live in a small town in Mississippi...

It's very integrated in all aspects.

It's funny to me when people from very "white" parts of the north criticize Southerners for being racists. We live together, work together, play together, and worship together. We have confronted our historical problems and have not only survived but are thriving.

[phaseolus]

14. I've always been surprised by that whenever they send me down south...

That, and the wonderful food. And the friendly people who just love to talk... and talk ... and talk some more...! :)

Anyway -- for Milwaukee county, my neighborhood's reasonably ethnically diverse. It's a suburb, majority caucasian, but it has close to the national average of African-Americans and Asians. No real poverty, though. No fantastic wealth, for that matter - those people like to settle in the solidly Republican suburbs in Ozaukee and Waukesha counties.

[demosincebirth]

8. minority

70% Asian-- 30% White. Peaceful neighborhood.

[afraid_of_the_dark]

10. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[afraid_of_the_dark]

9. Very ethnically integrated...

African Americans, Latinos, some Caucasians (albeit a minority), as well as some Indians, Nepalis and a very nice Vietnamese couple. But we're a pretty young community - a lot of young singles, or young families.

[GumboYaYa]

11. I live in one of the most diverse communities in America,

University City, Missouri. There is no majority, race, religion, or creed in my city. It is an eclectic community with lots of arts, music, and restaurants. We also have one of the highest density of Democrats in all of Missouri. I'm very proud to call it home.

[radwriter0555]

12. JUST this morning, my daughter and I saw a white couple walking their

dogs... a rare sight on our street, in the historic West Adams area of Los Angeles.. We're in a neighborhood that's primarily black and latino.

The area is ripe for that so-called re-gentrification, I suppose. I bought there because it's quiet, lovely and undiscovered by yuppies yet. I'm sure it'll be fashionable soon enough when everyone gets tired of paying half a million for a cottage stuffed next to a high rise, like in west hollywood...

[Philosophy]

13. I'm white but most of my neighbors are African-American

Most of them are soldiers at the nearby Army base. The white officers live in a nicer part of town.

[Burma Jones]

15. Very....My Son's Elementary School is:

White: 46.7
Asian: 30.3
Afr. Am: 15.8
Hisp: 6.8
Am Ind 0.4


We moved here after living in Westchester County NY, in which the Elementary School had more African American teachers than students and there were no hispanic children. In short, we lived in lily white heaven. Before that we lived in Great Falls, VA, again, lily white heaven. The police reports there generally dealt with rabid animals, mailbox vandalism and noise complaints.

We really do like it here better, we have more friends, our kids have more friends. However, with few exceptions, each ethnic group socializes within its own boundaries even though you can go down our street and see Asian, Black, Asian, Asian. Black, Asian, White, Asian (our street is particularly Chinese). Also, the police reports are much scarier, rapes every week, murders, assaults etcetera. We have gang activity not far from here as well.

We're in northern Montgomery County Maryland, near NIST and all that Genome stuff y'all been hearing about.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

16. very

i live on the east side in the 90's in manhattan

[demnan]

18. We have every possible nation of the world

represented in my apartment building. I do not exaggerate. The neighborhood is majority hispanic with a healthy mix of black, white and all Asian varieties.

Lately we have gotten quite a few Ethiopian and Kenyan families. Come summer all the life guards at the pool seem to come from Poland.

[Loonman]

19. Extremely

Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indian, Portuguese, Haitian, Russian, Polish, Brazilian, Salvadoran. You name it, they live in my 'hood.

[Bertha Venation]

20. Not very.

It's mostly whitefolks, with two Afro-American families that I know of. That's judging from who I wave at as I drive through the neighborhood.

[Rowdyboy]

21. 85% Black...12%White...3%Hispanic

for the town of 15,000 as a whole. Our neighborhood in a four block radius is probably 50-50 Black and White.

[curse10]

22. We've got a little bit of everything where I live

:-)

[mac56]

23. Very.

Multi-ethnic and quite pleasant, thank you.

[TreasonousBastard]

24. Very...

you name 'em, we got 'em.

Used to buy the Daily Fishwrap from a Chinese guy, but now it's an Indian guy. Went out for a while with a Greek woman, after the Irish, and Puerto Rican women. Buy a lot of groceries from the Brazilian across the street, and every so often eat in the Argentinian and Cuban restaurants. Buy other stuff from the Black businesses in town, and the Blacks and Hispanics in my building are great neighbors.

Run into Phillipinos, various other Asians and a lot of Arabs around here, too. And Orthodox Jews with the big schul a few blocks away.

Bunch of others around. There's a Little Italy on the south side of town, not too far from Polish Hall.

Damn near everyone in this town has an accent.

[GhostThatWalks]

25. a neighborhood around me.

Some black guy moved in and a bunch of rednecks burnt his house down.
Really stupid.

[rbnyc]

26. 7.5 on a scale from 1-10

It's mostly Polish but has a good mix of Blacks, Italians, Jews, Puerto Ricans, Asians, other Hispanics and poor young white artists.

;-)

[The Backlash Cometh]

27. I'm the only trigena between two subdivisions.

I thought I saw a hindu family once, but I don't think it counts if you only see them once in two years.

[blondeatlast]

28. Several Latino families, my husband is South Asian, an

African-American family just moved, and at the end of the cul de sac there is a gay couple--together for 20 years.

Love it here, and on pleasant weekend evenings we drool at each other's bbq grilling.

[flama]

29. I live in Vanilla City

Everybody's white and most of them have generations of history in the US. (Some of them are rednecks, though. Does that count as a color?)

The guy across the street is from Germany. He still has an accent - and an extended family. (I think that's great!)

We could use a whole lot more diversity and I could use some neighbors with new recipes.

[Deja Q]

30. Well...

There's an African American family that I know of.

An Indian American family.

A Hispanic family.

Otherwise it's all white: White, off-white, lily-white, bleached white... Mostly whites... many of which have "Support our troops" signs littering the neighborhood. I really need to get some white spraypaint and get rid of the tr in 'troops'... :evilgrin: )

Oh, there's also a Klingon family in a flat across the street, not to mention the Cybermen... :D

[LWolf]

31. 3 races, very balanced.

Caucasion, African American, and Hispanic. I don't have percentages.

[Blue_State_Elitist]

32. White Conservative Mormon

I live near a Mormon church.

[Melsky]

33. Pretty darn white

Retired white blue collar and military mostly. We are way out in the country.

[TheMightyFavog]

34. Marinette County is so white....

We make Conan O'Brian look like Samuel L. Jackson.

[Bill of Rights]

35. Inner City Minneapolis

In a precinct with low-voter turnout. We live in a Victorian built during the Civil War.

Our neighborhood is extremely integrated: white/black mostly, with lots of Asians and Hispanics. Some people from Somalia, too. Oh, a Native American woman lives down the block.

[Susang]

36. West Side/Humboldt Park, Chicago, IL

What ethnicity would you like this evening? :-)

My street is mostly Puerto Rican, across Western Ave (2 blocks away) is Ukranian, Lithuanian & Polish, 2 blocks west is black, Mexican, Cuban, Dominican, & Ecuadorian. A little further north there's a little pocket of Korean, Indian, and Pakistani.

[scarlet_owl]

37. Very.

I live in an apartment building in a college town. I have had mostly black neighbors in the 4 years I've lived here, but now there is an Asian lady next door and some Indians downstairs. There was a Mexican family on the second floor for about six months, but they moved out and now I'm the only Hispanic around here that I know of. I don't care who lives in the building, as long as they're quiet. I just wish that stinky cigar guy would move out.

[Ellen Forradalom]

38. Hyde Park, Chicago Illinois--very integrated

Hyde Park is the neighborhood of the University of Chicago, on Chicago's South Side. Our realtor said that Hyde Park residents go by an unspoken agreement that they want integration to work, and so far as I can see it does. The area, unlike areas that integrated later, has a strong African-American political and cultural presence.

[He loved Big Brother]

39. I live on Capitol Hill in Seattle

Very integrated. Almost moreso than where I grew up, West Palm Beach Florida. Capitol Hill also has many gay folk. It has many everybody. I love it.

[BurtWorm]

40. Upper West Side of Manhattan, just below Morningside Heights

Very well integrated. My neighborhood has especially high concentrations of Jews, Dominicans, Haitians, African-Americans, Russians and Central Americans.

[slackmaster]

49. I spent a week in that area back in '79

Hanging out with an art chick at Columbia U.

The only thing I found odd was the tortillas were all dyed yellow. I'm confident that NYC, being the food capitol of the world, has figured out that tortillas are not yellow.

[BurtWorm]

50. Most of the ones I've seen lately are white

with an occasional red or green thrown in.

[chefgirl]

41. NOT

I live in a small town in Maine, you know, the state that was declared the 'whitest' in the nation last year.
Unfortunately they were absolutely correct about that.
While it would be nice to live among a more diverse population, I have a feeling it will be a very long time in coming.

-chef-

[Kamika]

42. locally?

Id say it's like 99% whites.. then there's my family, a turkish doctor and a black family

[Robb]

43. Funny story...

A few years back we were over in Telluride, CO (about an hour away) having dinner. We wound up staying until the bars kicked us out (big surprise there), and caught a lift with a shuttle van heading out to the parking lot.

So it's a cold, dark, snowy night, but the roads looked good. The driver was Australian; a Texan on board asked him if he was going slow on purpose.

"Yeah," he said. "Got to watch out for the black ice on the road."

Long pause.

Texan: "Really? Wow. I haven't seen any black guys since I've been in Colorado." :D

[noonwitch]

44. 70% white, 25% black, 5% everybody else.

My block, that is. Most of Warren is 85% to 90% white.

[Anaxamander]

45. Tallahassee, FL

60% white
40% black

Of course, with a small percentage of "other," if I remember right.

[Mick Knox]

46. Only whites in my neighborhood..

In my city.. prolly 60 white 38% American Indian, one Yeman family.. I think there is a Mexican family somewhere as well..

[Ladyhawk]

47. Not at all...just a buncha pasty white Republicans

[JCMach1]

48. Laughing a little-- I teach at a university with 70 different

nationalities.

That also applies to the professors.

On my block live Americans, Burmans, Jordanians, Lebanese, Egyptians, New Zealanders, Canadians, Argentinians, Zimbabweans, Emiratis, British, Phillipinos, Malaysians, Ethiopians, Indians, Sri Lankans and a small host of others.

All colors countries and creeds...

It's very interesting living in a real multi-cultural setting.

[Lisa0825]

51. Mine is about 50% Hispanic, 35% White, and 15% Black.

[dawn]

52. Pretty diverse..

Many Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and other East Asians, along with a large population of East Indians. Hispanics. A few of us pasty white folks, too.

I'm in Irvine, CA.

[Merrick]

54. sadly I'm in Irvine too, but just workin'

Much like most of those hispanics, I'm sure. A few white people? Jesus. Then there's the one black guy being secretly followed by the omniprescent police force as he drives by one strip mall after another on his way to Costa Mesa.
Sorry... but at least its real safe.
I live in Long Beach. Very integrated.

[bubblesby2002]

53. Hey, I live in Victoria

one of the whitest cities in North America I believe. Although it has changed a little bit in the last tne years or so. We have a mid size Chinese community, and a small but growing African American community.

[geniph]

55. The little block I live in is pretty white

although there's a Hispanic family at the end of the block. The larger neighborhood is pretty much proportional with the population breakout for western Washington overall - a fair number of Native Americans (they're Muckleshoots where I live), lots of Pacific Islanders, some Asians, some African-Americans, some Hispanics, and about 70% white or multiracial.

The school district I work for is another story. Because we're in one of the few affordable-housing areas left in the Seattle area, our population is at least 25% English-as-a-second-language, with a very high population of Somalians, Hispanics, and Pacific Islanders especially.

[Nikia]

56. Mostly white

My whole little Wisconsin town is mostly white too aside from some Hispanic immigrants. There may be a Hispanic family a few doors down. I am not sure. There are a bunch of white and Hispanic teenagers there always but I don't know who really lives there.