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Where do you live? Based on your attitude I’d guess Seattle or Portland. Last I checked, there’s proportionally more white folks in the PNW than Texas, proporti

by abduhl 2y ago

Where do you live? Based on your attitude I’d guess Seattle or Portland. Last I checked, there’s proportionally more white folks in the PNW than Texas, proportionally more white folks in Seattle/Portland than say Dallas or Houston, and let’s not even get into eastern Washington or Oregon for conservative ideas like how “No free negro or mulatto not residing in this state at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall come, reside or be within this state or hold any real estate, or make any contracts, or maintain any suit therein; and the legislative assembly shall provide by penal laws for the removal by public officers of all such negroes and mulattoes, and for their effectual exclusion from the state, and for the punishment of persons who shall bring them into the state, or employ or harbor them.”

yareal 2y ago
Are you suggesting Texas is systemically a great place to live for non white folks? Refuting the statement above? Seattle definitely has a history of redlining and race exclusion. It's also farther from the U.S. south, where population densities of non white folk historically lived. That city is almost certainly alienating to non white folks from a "few people here look like me" perspective. But Texas has a higher rate of incarceration for Black folks, per 100,000 Black folks than Washington. I don't know that I'd call the state a great place to live, even if lots of people call it home. A high population of any one group does not mean that the state is a good place for those people. Or that those people will have cultural acceptance. Using your examples, Oregon and Washington and Texas all have about 50% women, but Oregon and Washington are much less likely to remove access to women's healthcare.
- abduhl 2y ago
  >> Are you suggesting Texas is systemically a great place to live for non white folks? Refuting the statement above? As a non white person that has lived in both Seattle and Texas: I am not suggesting, it I am affirming it. It’s weird to talk with people like you who are so wrapped up in identity politics yet you can’t see the appeal of being in an area where you aren’t the only one of your kind.

by abduhl 2y ago

yareal 2y ago

Are you suggesting Texas is systemically a great place to live for non white folks? Refuting the statement above? Seattle definitely has a history of redlining and race exclusion. It's also farther from the U.S. south, where population densities of non white folk historically lived. That city is almost certainly alienating to non white folks from a "few people here look like me" perspective. But Texas has a higher rate of incarceration for Black folks, per 100,000 Black folks than Washington. I don't know that I'd call the state a great place to live, even if lots of people call it home. A high population of any one group does not mean that the state is a good place for those people. Or that those people will have cultural acceptance. Using your examples, Oregon and Washington and Texas all have about 50% women, but Oregon and Washington are much less likely to remove access to women's healthcare.

abduhl 2y ago
>> Are you suggesting Texas is systemically a great place to live for non white folks? Refuting the statement above? As a non white person that has lived in both Seattle and Texas: I am not suggesting, it I am affirming it. It’s weird to talk with people like you who are so wrapped up in identity politics yet you can’t see the appeal of being in an area where you aren’t the only one of your kind.