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Stockton California Is the Most Diverse City in America According to New Study

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California is home to seven of the 10 most racially diverse cities, a U.S. News analysis finds.

Washington, D.C. – The most racially diverse city in the United States is Stockton, California, and the least racially diverse city is El Paso, Texas, a new U.S. News & World Report analysis has found.

To determine the most racially diverse cities in America, U.S. News calculated a diversity score for each of the 66 U.S. cities with populations of 300,000 or more, based on recent census data. The diversity score represents the likelihood that, in a particular city, two individuals chosen at random will be from different racial and ethnic groups.

Key findings include:

*Most cities are becoming more racially diverse. Of the 66 cities evaluated, about 70% – 46 cities – grew in racial diversity from 2010 to 2018. During that same time, the number of cities where no racial group made up more than half the population doubled from 5 to 10.

*Immigration and retirement trends contributed to increased diversity. Cities like New York, with a large immigrant population, tended to be more diverse. Experts suggest urban diversity also increased as the baby boomer generation, which is three-quarters white, moved away from cities.

Most Racially Diverse Large Cities in America
1. Stockton, CA
2. Oakland, CA
3. Sacramento, CA
4. New York, NY
5. Long Beach, CA
6. San Jose, CA
7. Houston, TX
8. Los Angeles, CA
9. Fresno, CA
10. Chicago, IL

Least Racially Diverse Large Cities in America
1. El Paso, TX
2. Detroit, MI
3. Lexington, KY
4. Portland, OR
5. Louisville, KY
6. Pittsburgh, PA
7. Omaha, NE
8. Memphis, TN
9. Colorado Springs, CO
10. Corpus Christi, TX

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How many people reading this thread have been to Stockton? I have. I worked there for two years. It is an absolute ****hole. Stockton is a city the tourists never see. It has none of the amenities or charm of the Bay Area, Los Angeles, or San Diego. If you blindfolded a tourist, and then took the blindfold off when you'd reached Stockton, they would think you'd taken them to Guatamala. In fact, I can't think of any part of the Central Valley of California that I enjoy driving through or visiting. Fresno, also located in the Central Valley, is another ****hole.

There's nothing inherently better about diversity than homogeneity, besides the food. And no one moves to a new city solely for better tasting food, we move for job opportunities, or to secure a better environment for our children. You aren't going to find opportunity or safety in the most diverse city in America, just poverty and misery.
 
"Access denied."

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truthatallcost said:
How many people reading this thread have been to Stockton? I have. I worked there for two years. It is an absolute ****hole. Stockton is a city the tourists never see. It has none of the amenities or charm of the Bay Area, Los Angeles, or San Diego. If you blindfolded a tourist, and then took the blindfold off when you'd reached Stockton, they would think you'd taken them to Guatamala. In fact, I can't think of any part of the Central Valley of California that I enjoy driving through or visiting. Fresno, also located in the Central Valley, is another ****hole.

There's nothing inherently better about diversity than homogeneity, besides the food. And no one moves to a new city solely for better tasting food, we move for job opportunities, or to secure a better environment for our children. You aren't going to find opportunity or safety in the most diverse city in America, just poverty and misery.
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I will admit. I kind of like Stockton. There’s a bit of a charm to the town.
 
truthatallcost said:
How many people reading this thread have been to Stockton? I have. I worked there for two years. It is an absolute ****hole. Stockton is a city the tourists never see. It has none of the amenities or charm of the Bay Area, Los Angeles, or San Diego. If you blindfolded a tourist, and then took the blindfold off when you'd reached Stockton, they would think you'd taken them to Guatamala. In fact, I can't think of any part of the Central Valley of California that I enjoy driving through or visiting. Fresno, also located in the Central Valley, is another ****hole.

There's nothing inherently better about diversity than homogeneity, besides the food. And no one moves to a new city solely for better tasting food, we move for job opportunities, or to secure a better environment for our children. You aren't going to find opportunity or safety in the most diverse city in America, just poverty and misery.
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At one time (many decades ago) I thought Stockton had some redeeming qualities. But I went there a couple of times about six years ago and it was the worst ****hole...just a dreary, deadening, ugly place. At this point I refuse to go any further south (by road) than Salinas. Southern California is nothing more than a sea of under-developed world humanity, only broken by occasional islands of rich enclaves for only the most well off.

This isn't the state of my childhood or youth. It's unaffordable, gritty, arrogant, and far from "mellow". It's what happens with unrestricted and unfiltered immigration - a society of extremes.

Even tho I near 70, I'm selling out and looking elsewhere (southern Oregon, Washington, Idaho, or Utah).
 
NY? Chicago? LA? ****holes?

Hard to call these huge diverse cities any single name. They're not homogeneous. Rags to riches, slums to affluent opulence, and everything in between.
 
truthatallcost said:
How many people reading this thread have been to Stockton? I have. I worked there for two years. It is an absolute ****hole. Stockton is a city the tourists never see. It has none of the amenities or charm of the Bay Area, Los Angeles, or San Diego. If you blindfolded a tourist, and then took the blindfold off when you'd reached Stockton, they would think you'd taken them to Guatamala. In fact, I can't think of any part of the Central Valley of California that I enjoy driving through or visiting. Fresno, also located in the Central Valley, is another ****hole.

There's nothing inherently better about diversity than homogeneity, besides the food. And no one moves to a new city solely for better tasting food, we move for job opportunities, or to secure a better environment for our children. You aren't going to find opportunity or safety in the most diverse city in America, just poverty and misery.
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Fresno, also located in the Central Valley, is another ****hole.
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I once sat at the down town Fresno Greyhound bus station in the middle of the night

I, was the only white guy there.

yeah, real diverse(LOL)
 
maxparrish said:
At one time (many decades ago) I thought Stockton had some redeeming qualities. But I went there a couple of times about six years ago and it was the worst ****hole...just a dreary, deadening, ugly place. At this point I refuse to go any further south (by road) than Salinas. Southern California is nothing more than a sea of under-developed world humanity, only broken by occasional islands of rich enclaves for only the most well off.

This isn't the state of my childhood or youth. It's unaffordable, gritty, arrogant, and far from "mellow". It's what happens with unrestricted and unfiltered immigration - a society of extremes.

Even tho I near 70, I'm selling out and looking elsewhere (southern Oregon, Washington, Idaho, or Utah).
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If I were you, I would put Texas and Tenn. on your list
 
Stockton's motto is, "Better than Modesto!"
Modesto's motto is, "Better than Merced!"
Merced's motto is, "Better than Fresno!"
Fresno's motto is "Better than Bakersfield!"
Bakersfield's motto is, "Better than Taft!"
And Taft's motto is, "Home of the country's largest Dollar Tree store!"
 
Chomsky said:
NY? Chicago? LA? ****holes?

Hard to call these huge diverse cities any single name. They're not homogeneous. Rags to riches, slums to affluent opulence, and everything in between.
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There are ordinary American families living in Stockton as well as towns and cities all over America, good decent people of different ethnicity and income. It is a shame to see racist threads like this one, reeking of hate for fellow Americans, spreading miserable poison to anyone who will pay attention.
 
Luther said:
If I were you, I would put Texas and Tenn. on your list
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Hmmmm...I have thought about it (too bad Californians are driving up cost of housing in Idaho). But not sure if climate is too hot for me - on the other hand the mountains of North Carolina might be okay.
 
Jean-s said:
There are ordinary American families living in Stockton as well as towns and cities all over America, good decent people of different ethnicity and income. It is a shame to see racist threads like this one, reeking of hate for fellow Americans, spreading miserable poison to anyone who will pay attention.
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I'm sorry, Stockton is a giant sore thumb. I can't find a single neighborhood that attracts me, it has the feel of a community of burned out dullards looking for a handout or and besieged common folk hiding in houses among the dregs of humanity.
 
maxparrish said:
Hmmmm...I have thought about it (too bad Californians are driving up cost of housing in Idaho). But not sure if climate is too hot for me - on the other hand the mountains of North Carolina might be okay.
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Boone N.C. (Blowing Rock) is a very nice place.

If I didn't love being near the ocean so much, I would consider Boone.
 
RetiredUSN said:
Boone N.C. (Blowing Rock) is a very nice place.

If I didn't love being near the ocean so much, I would consider Boone.
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Yes...I've scoured climate maps for many years. The only place east of the Mississippi river that has both bearable winters and only modestly warm summers is in the high altitude towns of North Carolina. I too love the ocean but the humid heat of the east coast is too much for me. California, once as affordable as any other place, is now only for the rich...unless you are willing to live in places that you'd never put up with elsewhere.

Nope, if I love the ocean (and I do) my only other choice is to move elsewhere - like New Zealand or Northern Spain. It's no longer affordable IF you can't tolerate hot and humid shorelines.
 
Stockton is terrible. Easily the ugliest city in the state, and one of the worst in the nation.
 
happy Friday, y'all! i know that when i wake up on a Friday, the thing that i'm concerned the most about is

DIVERSITY AND THEM GOSH DURNED NOT WHITE PEOPLES
 
There hasn't been anything pretty in Stockton since Audra Barkley left town.
 
Whoa!

I thank the OP for this interesting information.

Some people do sincerely agree that diversity is a good thing.

Some people sincerely disagree.

Agree or disagree, diversity is here to stay.

In the coming decades, each person who elects to stay in the United States will have to decide how s/he copes with the situation.

Eventually, every single state will be "diverse," even those states close to the Canadian border.

Our great-grandchildren will certainly be living in an "interesting" country.
 
Helix said:
happy Friday, y'all! i know that when i wake up on a Friday, the thing that i'm concerned the most about is

DIVERSITY AND THEM GOSH DURNED NOT WHITE PEOPLES
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You've said you live in a podunk town in a largely rural area, you brave diversity champion you.
 
maxparrish said:
At one time (many decades ago) I thought Stockton had some redeeming qualities. But I went there a couple of times about six years ago and it was the worst ****hole...just a dreary, deadening, ugly place. At this point I refuse to go any further south (by road) than Salinas. Southern California is nothing more than a sea of under-developed world humanity, only broken by occasional islands of rich enclaves for only the most well off.

This isn't the state of my childhood or youth. It's unaffordable, gritty, arrogant, and far from "mellow". It's what happens with unrestricted and unfiltered immigration - a society of extremes.

Even tho I near 70, I'm selling out and looking elsewhere (southern Oregon, Washington, Idaho, or Utah).
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The town mascot is a homeless panhandler who balances shopping carts on his head for tips.

Homeless Stockton Man Balances Objects on His Head Just to Get By | FOX40

This guy is revered by the people of Stockton. It kind of tells you everything you need to know about the talent pool in Stockton.

Of course the poverty and crime in Northern California isn't nearly as bad as Southern California. People in SoCal are strangely well adjusted to the worst kinds of blight and poverty, and live side by side with homeless tent city dwellers, as if that's normal. There seems to be a large amount of apathy on the behalf of Californians now, as if theres nothing they won't tolerate, save for conservative points of view.
 
truthatallcost said:
The town mascot is a homeless panhandler who balances shopping carts on his head for tips.

Homeless Stockton Man Balances Objects on His Head Just to Get By | FOX40

This guy is revered by the people of Stockton. It kind of tells you everything you need to know about the talent pool in Stockton.

Of course the poverty and crime in Northern California isn't nearly as bad as Southern California. People in SoCal are strangely well adjusted to the worst kinds of blight and poverty, and live side by side with homeless tent city dwellers, as if that's normal. There seems to be a large amount of apathy on the behalf of Californians now, as if theres nothing they won't tolerate, save for conservative points of view.
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Of course, nothing is truly new under the sun. Lovecraft described the same conditions at Red Hook in New York, an enclave of "diversity" visited upon a once upscale part of the City. And just as California is described as Dickinsonian so was the areas where Lovecraft lived (and hated).

The population is a hopeless tangle and enigma; Syrian, Spanish, Italian, and negro elements impinging upon one another, and fragments of Scandinavian and American belts lying not far distant. It is a babel of sound and filth, and sends out strange cries to answer the lapping of oily waves at its grimy piers and the monstrous organ litanies of the harbour whistles. ...One can trace the relics of this former happiness in the trim shapes of the buildings, the occasional graceful churches, and the evidences of original art and background in bits of detail here and there …

Hordes of prowlers reel shouting and singing along the lanes and thoroughfares, occasional furtive hands suddenly extinguish lights and pull down curtains, and swarthy, sin-pitted faces disappear from windows when visitors pick their way through. Policemen despair of order or reform, and seek rather to erect barriers protecting the outside world from the contagion....Visible offences are as varied as the local dialects, and run the gamut from the smuggling of rum and prohibited aliens through diverse stages of lawlessness and obscure vice to murder and mutilation in their most abhorrent guises. That these visible affairs are not more frequent is not to the neighbourhood’s credit, unless the power of concealment be an art demanding credit. More people enter Red Hook than leave it—or at least, than leave it by the landward side—and those who are not loquacious are the likeliest to leave.

Malone found in this state of things a faint stench of secrets more terrible than any of the sins denounced by citizens and bemoaned by priests and philanthropists. He was conscious, as one who united imagination with scientific knowledge, that modern people under lawless conditions tend uncannily to repeat the darkest instinctive patterns of primitive half-ape savagery in their daily life and ritual observances; and he had often viewed with an anthropologist’s shudder the chanting, cursing processions of blear-eyed and pockmarked young men which wound their way along in the dark small hours of morning. …
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Ah yes...this is California.
 
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truthatallcost said:
Which areas do you visit in Stockton? Maybe you know something I don't.
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French camp mostly.

But I’m not saying Stockton is a great town by any stretch of the imagination, just that I find it has a certain charm to it.

Stockton is I think the victim of bad governance, by a clique of a group of Foreign extremists known as the “California State Assembly” and not really the diversity of the people living there. Hispanics and Punjabi Indians are very industrious and family values kind of people. The problem in Stockton is lack of good leadership plus damaging liberal policies from Sacramento
 
maxparrish said:
Of course, nothing is truly new under the sun. Lovecraft described the same conditions at Red Hook in New York, an enclave of "diversity" visited upon a once upscale part of the City. And just as California is described as Dickinsonian so was the areas where Lovecraft lived (and hated).



Ah yes...this is California.
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Red Hook had the geographical distinction of being so far removed from most of the more desirable areas of NYC, that gentrification didn't reach it until decades after the rest of NYC. The 20th century decline of Red Hook was only reversed by whites moving in and tidying things up in the 21st century. We've seen this pattern repeated over and over again; once thriving industrial areas fall into disrepair when jobs and whites leave, only to be resurrected once the whites come back.

Red Hook: the hip New York enclave caught between gentrification and climate change | Environment | The Guardian

Stockton on the other hand is as unlikely a place as Detroit for full scale gentrification. The 100 degree summer weather, polluted air, and isolation from the Bay Area ensures that white people won't be saving the day in Stockton any time soon.
 
EMNofSeattle said:
French camp mostly.

But I’m not saying Stockton is a great town by any stretch of the imagination, just that I find it has a certain charm to it.

Stockton is I think the victim of bad governance, by a clique of a group of Foreign extremists known as the “California State Assembly” and not really the diversity of the people living there. Hispanics and Punjabi Indians are very industrious and family values kind of people. The problem in Stockton is lack of good leadership plus damaging liberal policies from Sacramento
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Stockton is felled by its own hand. They elected a 24 year old mayor, who has spent the last three years avoiding Stockton like the plague. He posts updates on Twitter of himself wearing expensive suits, dining in San Francisco. His name is Michael Tubbs, and he was elected to replace the corrupt Hispanic mayor before him, who was charged with playing strip poker with kids. Stockton is it's own worst enemy, the normies were driven out long ago.
 
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