Yes, the Springs is about 6% black, but I’m not sure about the 80% white number, because the Hispanic population is quite high here.
And I don’t care how the city looks. If people choose to segregate themselves, that’s their choice. I just think that it’s telling that the “liberal utopias” in the state like Denver and Boulder who scream endlessly about diversity and equality are the worst offenders for segregation.
In the meantime, in the “Evil Conservative” city of Colorado Springs, we have people of all colors and races working together with very, very little racially motivated crime, and with neighborhoods where different races live side-by-side with no strife.
Heck, just on my block, we have half a dozen Hispanic families, two black families, and about nine white families. All our kids play in the yards, often with each other.
What I’m sick of is the constant prejudice and presumptions about conservatives as “racists.” My post was simply to point out that conservatives are not the ones creating segregated cities.
I lived in Milwaukee, one of the nation’s “Hyper-Segregated” cities, and one of the few cities that actually elected full socialists instead of Democrats, and a city that went about 80 years under left-wing control. That city is a cesspool of racial intolerance. Yet the worst of the downtrodden continued to reelect those who were responsible for destroying the city and its economy.
The difference is glaring. That’s all I was trying to point out. I have no “white guilt”. I leave that to liberals who define themselves by their skin color, and not the content of their character.
the 80% I looked up on a city demographics site
race perspective is shaped by two things I’ve learned:
your own race
how many of the “others” are around you
hence in Dixie we are always scorned for not being diversity tolerant yet we are the most diverse (that really means non white) part of the nation
i lived in Manhattan 1980-88...most segregated place I ever lived