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My general view after travelling to Denver is that one of America's biggest issues is underpopulation. There is so much land in these areas and actually lots of
by cylinder 9y ago
My general view after travelling to Denver is that one of America's biggest issues is underpopulation. There is so much land in these areas and actually lots of infrastructure relative to population.
It all stood out to me how white these areas remain. I saw a handful of non whites and no Asians the entire time. Shocking how the whitest areas are the most anti immigrant. What are they so angry about?!
Bringing in migrants and capital to these areas could really set the US economy on fire. But since the country turned away from openness in the 1920s economically it's been declining on the growth side (carried by the productivity economy which is tech).
- golemiprague 9y agoPeople want to live with similiar people as them, nothing wrong about it and it works much better than all the diversity propaganda they try to push on us. It is not like in other cities people live together, on the contrary, people pay huge amount of money to be segregated from blacks or hispanics, the fact that you see them all mixed in the downtown is a situation imposed on people, not deliberately intentional.
- WillPostForFood 9y agoDenver is 30% Latino, 11% Black, 5% Asian. Not sure how you only saw a handful of non-whites.
- hueving 9y agoConfirmation bias or lives somewhere with a much smaller white population.
- lotharbot 9y agoOverall Denver is less white than the US as a whole, but has some neighborhoods that are almost entirely white (take a look on https://demographics.virginia.edu/DotMap/index.html https://demographics.virginia.edu/DotMap/index.html ). You can hang out in, say, Cherry Creek or Wash Park and see almost entirely white people. Go to Park Hill or south Feds and you see very few white people.
- astrodust 9y agoSegregation.
- selimthegrim 9y agoHe didn’t go to Aurora.
- astrodust 9y agoMany American cities feel like they've just suffered a bombing raid and are in the process of rebuilding. It's parking lots, abandoned buildings, and other junk for as far as the eye can see.