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> Menlo Park, an affluent, mostly white city of 35,000 To repeat from the previous time this was posted: According to their own source, Menlo Park is 70% white
by deogeo 7y ago
> Menlo Park, an affluent, mostly white city of 35,000
To repeat from the previous time this was posted: According to their own source, Menlo Park is 70% white, but this includes Hispanics, who make up 18%. Assuming they were mostly counted under white, this leaves whites as barely over half of the residents - certainly less than the 61% non-Hispanic white of the US as a whole [1]. So why does Vice try to frame Menlo Park as some sort of white stronghold, when it's less white than the US on average?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_States#Race_and_ethnicity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_State...
- mertd 7y agoWhat the stats don't tell you is that the city is divided by a 8 lane freeway where the affluent folks live on one side and FB campus is on the other side.
- bsanr 7y agoBecause it's still above the tipping point. Cities not majority-minority or undergoing white flight will still enjoy the benefits of being perceived as having a mostly-white population (responsive and sympathetic law enforcement, for one).