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How QC and webcomics generally relate to the real USA
cesium133:
Out of curiosity I looked up some towns around the area where I grew up...
--- Quote from: Wikipedia article on Lonaconing, Maryland ---The racial makeup of the town was 98.1% White, 0.3% African American, 0.2% Asian, and 1.4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.5% of the population.
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Yup, that sounds about like Lonaconing.
edit -- there's another town further down the creek (Luke) that Wikipedia says is 100.0% white, but that's cheating a little because there are only 18 people in that town.
Emperor Norton:
I grew up in an area that is about 60% white, 33% black, with a touch of everything else. I remember when one of my friends I grew up with, went to University at Rhodes College in Memphis, he said one of his classmates from up in the New England area (but not from a major city) was amazed at "how many blacks were in the school." There were like, maybe 100, in a college that has about 2k students. My friend was just like "wut"?
hedgie:
I'd say that San Francisco was, in terms of numbers, SF was the most diverse city that I have lived in, but there was a *lot* of self-segregation along ethnic lines, largely due to prior racism/classism. Where I lived was largely Chinese, with plenty of of Irish, then "everyone else" mixed in, I cross the park, and it's more Eastern Europeans and Vietnamese. I take a couple of tram lines, and suddenly, it's largely Mexican, white bohemians, and Irish forced out of one of their enclaves due to gentrification. 'Tis rather sad that our species still hasn't overcome the sort of tribalist attitudes that have killed/hurt so many.
explicit:
--- Quote from: Emperor Norton on 05 Feb 2015, 19:45 ---I grew up in an area that is about 60% white, 33% black, with a touch of everything else. I remember when one of my friends I grew up with, went to University at Rhodes College in Memphis, he said one of his classmates from up in the New England area (but not from a major city) was amazed at "how many blacks were in the school." There were like, maybe 100, in a college that has about 2k students. My friend was just like "wut"?
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That's odd, all my friends where I went to school in NE are black. Then again, I guess I'm the odd one seeing as my town is about 5% black. The cities are still majority black though.
Zebediah:
--- Quote from: explicit on 05 Feb 2015, 20:30 ---The cities are still majority black though.
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Cities are majority black? In New England? Are we talking about the same New England? Because here are some numbers:
Hartford CT 38.7% African-American
Bridgeport CT 34.6% African-American
Boston MA 27.3% African-American
Springfield MA 22.3% African-American
Providence RI 16% African-American
Portland ME 7.1% African-American
Manchester NH 4.1% African-American
Burlington VT 3.5% African-American
In fact, I couldn't find a single municipality in all of New England with a majority black population.
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