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> There aren't many immigrants there WHAT are you talking about? > Landscaping is mostly white, maids are mostly white, and construction work is mostly white

> There aren't many immigrants there WHAT are you talking about? > Landscaping is mostly white, maids are mostly white, and construction work is mostly white I can't say anything about landscaping or maids, I've never noticed, but construction work is not mostly white, or at least, you can't simply discount the number of non-white construction workers. In my experience, immigrants in the Midwest are simply more segregated than in other places.

xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
If you're talking "big" Midwest cities, yea there's definitely segregation. But go out into the sticks a bit or 30 minutes outside any city and it's mostly white. I grew up in the suburbs of one of the largest cities in my state (city pop. 110,000 - suburb pop. 25,000). If I go onto wikipedia it says my suburb was and still is 90%+ white (closer to 97% when I was growing up) and the city is currently 82% white, 1% asian, and 2.5% hispanic (and these numbers have become more diverse since 15-20 years ago when I was growing up). Visiting Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville, and other large cities in the Midwest will not give you a good idea how most people in the Midwest live. At least half of the immigrants or children of immigrants I met while growing up actually didn't do service work. No one wants to move to bumfuck nowhere with little diversity, little job opportunity, and no major hub for anything nearby. Lots of Asian immigrants that came due to a Toyota plant that was built somewhat close to my suburb, lots of Indian and Middle-Eastern physicians, and about 1/10 of the Hispanic immigrants seemed to own their own restaurant/chain of restaurants. It's seriously crazy how different the world I grew up in is compared to the one most liberal, coastal, upper-middle class people experienced (the bubble I'm in now). I really wish everyone on the coasts could take a year to live in the middle-of-nowhere flyover country, it's amazing how Americans struggle to even believe the experiences of their fellow countrymen in different geographic regions.

xxSparkleSxx 9y ago

If you're talking "big" Midwest cities, yea there's definitely segregation. But go out into the sticks a bit or 30 minutes outside any city and it's mostly white. I grew up in the suburbs of one of the largest cities in my state (city pop. 110,000 - suburb pop. 25,000). If I go onto wikipedia it says my suburb was and still is 90%+ white (closer to 97% when I was growing up) and the city is currently 82% white, 1% asian, and 2.5% hispanic (and these numbers have become more diverse since 15-20 years ago when I was growing up). Visiting Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville, and other large cities in the Midwest will not give you a good idea how most people in the Midwest live. At least half of the immigrants or children of immigrants I met while growing up actually didn't do service work. No one wants to move to bumfuck nowhere with little diversity, little job opportunity, and no major hub for anything nearby. Lots of Asian immigrants that came due to a Toyota plant that was built somewhat close to my suburb, lots of Indian and Middle-Eastern physicians, and about 1/10 of the Hispanic immigrants seemed to own their own restaurant/chain of restaurants. It's seriously crazy how different the world I grew up in is compared to the one most liberal, coastal, upper-middle class people experienced (the bubble I'm in now). I really wish everyone on the coasts could take a year to live in the middle-of-nowhere flyover country, it's amazing how Americans struggle to even believe the experiences of their fellow countrymen in different geographic regions.