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Very cool looking. Now I can show my NY friends how diverse Denver really is and why there is a great multicultural food scene.
by stevenhubertron 12y ago
Very cool looking. Now I can show my NY friends how diverse Denver really is and why there is a great multicultural food scene.
- bitJericho 12y agoDenver had awesome food when I was up there recently! Boggles my mind that my colleagues were hitting up McDs!
- lotharbot 12y agoIt's interesting to note: in the late 1960s Denver was quite segregated. A 1974 Supreme Court decision led to students being forced to ride the bus across town to mix with students of other races (I rode from southwest Denver to Five Points for a few years in elementary school.) One of the major results was white families moving out of the Denver city limits. They ended forced busing in 1995. Denver now has one of the most diverse populations in the US, though it's often hurt by measurements that treat "white hispanic" (22%) and "non-hispanic white" (50%) as both just white. Denver is home to the largest Mongolian population in the US, one of the largest Native American Pow-Wows in the US, plus significant African American, Chinese, Japanese, Jewish, Russian, Polish, Ethiopian, and Lebanese groups. While there are some enclaves, there are a lot of very mixed neighborhoods as well. http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/17/us/court-says-denver-can-end-forced-busing.html http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/17/us/court-says-denver-can-e... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Denver http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Denver
- stevenhubertron 12y agoWow, thanks for this bit of history. I learned a few things about my town today!
- santaclaus 12y agoMmm Voodoo Donut.