(October 12, 2018 at 11:22 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: I do think it's suspicious that white liberals tend to live in the whitest cities. Portland is literally the whitest major city in America. I mean, isn't it a little racist to want to live in the whitest areas you can find?
Sometimes you find out about places after you move there. The state of Oregon as a whole is 88% non-Hispanic white -- but I had no idea about that when I moved here. I just went were the grad school was. If you wanted to change it, what could you do? Forcibly relocate 2-4 million people to East LA?
I grew up in a city in the northeast that was 1/3 black, in a neighborhood in which at least 9 languages were spoken regularly. I didn't think anything about it when I was there. It was just "home". It was only after I'd been away for a while that I began to realize what unique environment it was, and to miss the diversity. By then, though, it was a matter of staying where the job was.
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Dr H
"So, I became an anarchist, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."
Dr H
"So, I became an anarchist, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."