Lily White: A More Populous Region May Hinge on Diversity from the Editorial Board of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"After crunching 2010 census data, the Brookings Institution has issued a report about the state of racial diversity in America. Surprisingly, the numbers for the 100 largest metropolitan areas show Pittsburgh to be the second-whitest region in the nation. ... As Post-Gazette staff writer Gary Rotstein reported Monday, Pittsburgh is "whiter even than the Amish country around Lancaster, the Mormon population center of Salt Lake City, Midwest agrarian capitals such as Des Moines, Iowa, and far more isolated places like Boise, Idaho." How does a region built on immigration, albeit from previous centuries, come to have in 2011 such a small share of people of color?"
"After crunching 2010 census data, the Brookings Institution has issued a report about the state of racial diversity in America. Surprisingly, the numbers for the 100 largest metropolitan areas show Pittsburgh to be the second-whitest region in the nation. ... As Post-Gazette staff writer Gary Rotstein reported Monday, Pittsburgh is "whiter even than the Amish country around Lancaster, the Mormon population center of Salt Lake City, Midwest agrarian capitals such as Des Moines, Iowa, and far more isolated places like Boise, Idaho." How does a region built on immigration, albeit from previous centuries, come to have in 2011 such a small share of people of color?"
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