Posted on 04/23/2015 2:30:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A study of the Bay Area region finds that San Francisco is becoming less diverse as surrounding counties increase multicultural populations.
CityLab noted the study's starkest findings in the PolicyLink study: San Francisco is predicted to be the "whitest county" in the Bay Area by the year 2040. San Francisco is the only county in the Bay Area that is becoming less diverse; surrounding counties are becoming more diverse as soaring rent prices continue to drive people into other cities and towns.
"It's startling because the city's diversity and identity as a progressive, inclusive city is seriously at-risk," Sarah Treuhaft, PolicyLink's director of Equitable Growth Initiatives, said in an interview with the publication. "In fact, an honest look at the data shows it is becoming a mirage."
The study predicts that, on the other side of the spectrum, diversity will increase in Alameda, Contra Costa and San Mateo Counties in that timeframe.
Also on the rise throughout the Bay Area: Income inequality, Curbed noted, has jumped from 45th place in the country in 1979 to a current ranking of 14th place.
You mean San Mateo County? Santa Clara County is roughly 1/3 white, 1/3 Asian, 1/3 Hispanic, with 2% or less black.
I believe so. It has a very high concentration of Homosexuals, over 4%, more than double the national average.
I think SF could benefit from such a progressive program.
Maybe some wealthy conservative who needs tax writeoffs from real estate rental losses could do it. Watch liberal; heads explode!
The most strident of liberals usually don't live anyplace near where their boneheaded policies cause the most damage.
All of the white liberals I know in California live as far away from Amish people as possible. The white liberals in California live in suburbs near the coast. If they cannot afford living on the west side they live far to the east of people of color. White liberals want their kids to grow up in lily white communities.
Its called “Cognitive Dissonance”
There a cloud of Smug permeating the atmosphere there.
can we have an article on the blackest counties, so we know where the no-go zones are?
I think Seattle now has the dubious distinction of having the most gay households in the country.
Apparently there just aren’t that many gays of color.
yes, San Mateo County indeed
(thought, you can visit the Bay Area and see a great deal of diversity in most of it, especially if your vista includes at least a 5 or 10 mile frame of reference....allowing for a couple of “mostly-ghetto” localities like most of Oakland and Richmond for black people and Marin for white people, and so forth, but just go ten miles and you get super-diversity entoto).
yet, there is change afoot, with tons of Asians moving in and some black and even now a little visible Latino exodus)
How unthinkably horrible. All those.... WHITE people.
“White liberals want their kids to grow up in lily white communities.”
I don’t fault anybody for wanting to live among their own kind. It’s only “bad” for white people to do this.
Screw the diversity harlots.
Familiar SF leftie name. Any relation to Bob and Decca?
That’s because even minorities abhor fudge packers.
“the city’s diversity and identity as a progressive, inclusive”
“progressive, inclusive”—why stop there?
“progressive, inclusive, sick, demented, poisonous, whacked-out, crazed, ....”
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