How diverse is your area?

I think I read somewhere that New York City has more black people than the entire state of California.

 

Diversity in my area is Catholics.

98 percent WASP.

 

Not diverse at all.

In my hometown, about 90 percent white, 5 percent Hispanic and 2 percent African-American.

In my county, it's about 83 percent white, 7 percent Hispanic, 6 percent African-American.

 

Still amazing, though, for someone in that state to have never met a Jewish person. I know New York. I was born there and spent my early-childhood years there. There's a substantial Jewish population, even outside the city in most places. On my suburban-town block alone, there were three Jewish families that I knew of.

So, yes, I had some Jewish friends . Specifically next-door neighbors (twins my age, whose father has been an adult-lifetime close friend of my parents), across the street (a good friend who was in my class at school) and three houses up the street (three kids who were friends for two of my brothers and me).

 

I work in New York City and it's very diverse. My 16-person team is probably even more diverse than the city: head of it is a black woman, two other black women, an Australian woman, a woman from Poland, four white guys, a woman from new jersey, a woman from Colombia and a few other white chicks. Less diverse is the part of Fairfield county where I live. Don't know the numbers, but not many black folks, though one of the guys from Bell Biv Devoe lives in my hood.

 

I'm not sure that is a check box on the diversity scoresheet.

 

I purposely included that in hopes someone would note. But yeah, jersey chicks are a breed apart

 

Most of the girls I knew between the ages of 2 and 27 resemble that comment.

 

Worth noting that my town's high school football game (and a good number of others in Eastern Mass) was played last night and not Friday night because of Yom Kippur. Such a high percentage of students and faculty observe the holiday school closes.

 

Never realized this until saw a post from a Facebook acquaintance stringing a high school football game, but apparently Charlotte-area schools do this, too.

 

The sports editor most of my time at the Herald had come from the New York Post. He said the desk there always worked so that the Jews got the high holidays off and the Gentiles worked while it was vice versa for Christmas Eve, Christmas and Easter. Said it worked out great for everybody.

 

"Majority" here is Hispanic.
Then White
Then Asian
Then African-American