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Originally Posted by SIK
Now lets remove pink glasses and ask ourselves, is general living next door to black / mexican / muslim families like that for the majority of people?
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California is a bit more diverse than other states. I would imagine Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Florida are similar.
Other states - such as Louisiana - has a completely different kind of diversity. Major cities have entire districts which are dominated by certain races.
Some areas do not have this kind of diversity.
Where I live in Lincoln, California, 79% of the population are white, and 25% were Hispanic. (The math doesn't add up, but these are official stats; I am assuming some people identify themselves as half white / half Hispanic.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln,_California
However, where I grew up in Califon, New Jersey, 96% of the population is white. Hispanic is less than 2%.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Califon,_New_Jersey
(Keep in mind we are comparing a town of 50k in California vs a small town of 1k.....)
My point is here some people say "this is not my America" and for them, it isn't. They look around them and they see everyone around them is white. This is how I grew up in NJ - everyone was white. Now after thirty years in California it's vastly different. I live outside of the San Francisco Bay area, and outside of Silicon Valley, and we have a huge Hispanic population and large Asian population.
This is the changing face of our country.