Quick – name the most “progressive” cities in America. Portland? Seattle? Austin? Denver? Minneapolis?
These cities are known for their fine public school and public transportation systems and healthy art scenes as well as their liberal values, like actively encouraging cycling to work and anti-sprawl policies.
Aside from that, what else to these cities have in common? They are the whitest cities of their size in America, that’s what. Black folks make up 12.8% of the US population, but only constitute 10.6% of the population of Minneapolis, 10.0% in Denver, 8.8% in Austin, 6.2% in Seattle, and a mere 6.0% in Portland. And although foreign-born people make up a lot of the difference in these cities, they still lag behind other cities in their “diversity”.
It’s amusing, then, that so-called “progressives” flock to these cities. After all, why move away from downtown Atlanta to be called a racist when you can move to Portland and be a liberal hero?
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