What ethnic communities is your area known for?

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Majority Eastern European white people and Blacks.

Largely Jewish area. Though it's still a minority religion, I go to a school of about 1500 kids and I'd say about 30-40% of them are Jewish.

[bgwah]

My hometown has a high Scandinavian population, but it's mostly white people everywhere (some Mexicans if you go up to Mount Vernon). Go down to Everett and you get a few Hispanics and Asians (Japanese and Koreans, I think). Seattle has more diversity, obviously.

In Spokane, there are a few Hispanics, but not as many as the rest of Eastern Washington. I've seen a number of Vietnamese subgroups in Spokane (and Everett to a lesser degree), though. (I'm sure part of that is being a Catholic, though).

so much of the NW is just a hodgepodge of various European ethnic groups that have mixed so much there's no specific European identity most areas identify with. And a lot of people who settled here of course came from elsewhere in the United States (we didn't have as much direct settlement from Europe as say, the Midwest did). The only real exception I can think of is Lynden, which has maintained its Dutch character quite well. And a few places say they're Scandinavian still but it's not really noticeable when you're actually there. There's another place in Whatcom County (Peaceful Valley) that has a pretty large Russian population, I guess.

[phk]

In the great OC, we are most famous for the Vietnamese, but along with the usual suspects (Anglos and Hispanics), we also have a fair number of Iranians, with the Chinese making their mark in Irvine. OC has but 5,000 or so blacks, mostly middle to upper middle class, so they are pretty invisible.

It is interesting that in Socal, we really have never had the assorted and sundry ethnic enclaves of various white ethnic groups. The Italians, Irish and so forth just blend in and assimilate for some reason. Maybe it is the weather.

There is a degree of Armenian, Russian and "Oakie" differentiation in the Central Valley.

[Alcon]

My hometown has a high Scandinavian population, but it's mostly white people everywhere (some Mexicans if you go up to Mount Vernon). Go down to Everett and you get a few Hispanics and Asians (Japanese and Koreans, I think). Seattle has more diversity, obviously.

In Spokane, there are a few Hispanics, but not as many as the rest of Eastern Washington. I've seen a number of Vietnamese subgroups in Spokane (and Everett to a lesser degree), though. (I'm sure part of that is being a Catholic, though).

The low Hispanic population of Spokane has always puzzled me a little.  Not much farm country nearby, a la the Tri Cities, but still...it's cheap and blue-collar.

[bgwah]

My hometown has a high Scandinavian population, but it's mostly white people everywhere (some Mexicans if you go up to Mount Vernon). Go down to Everett and you get a few Hispanics and Asians (Japanese and Koreans, I think). Seattle has more diversity, obviously.

In Spokane, there are a few Hispanics, but not as many as the rest of Eastern Washington. I've seen a number of Vietnamese subgroups in Spokane (and Everett to a lesser degree), though. (I'm sure part of that is being a Catholic, though).

The low Hispanic population of Spokane has always puzzled me a little.  Not much farm country nearby, a la the Tri Cities, but still...it's cheap and blue-collar.

It's the kind of farming that's more important. Fruit picking requires a lot more manual labor than something like wheat harvesting...

[Alcon]

My hometown has a high Scandinavian population, but it's mostly white people everywhere (some Mexicans if you go up to Mount Vernon). Go down to Everett and you get a few Hispanics and Asians (Japanese and Koreans, I think). Seattle has more diversity, obviously.

In Spokane, there are a few Hispanics, but not as many as the rest of Eastern Washington. I've seen a number of Vietnamese subgroups in Spokane (and Everett to a lesser degree), though. (I'm sure part of that is being a Catholic, though).

The low Hispanic population of Spokane has always puzzled me a little.  Not much farm country nearby, a la the Tri Cities, but still...it's cheap and blue-collar.

It's the kind of farming that's more important. Fruit picking requires a lot more manual labor than something like wheat harvesting...

True, but Spokane has had a lower Hispanic population than Seattle, even.  Considering the relative cost of living and job market structures, as well as the location of farms and Hispanics nearby Spokane, that's always surprised me some.

[phk]

People are misunderstanding the question me thinks. Not who lives there, but what it's famous for.

Examples:
Chinese -> San Francisco
Cubans -> Miami.
Persian Jews -> Beverly Hills.

[patrick1]

^

Long Island: Jews and Italians- more specifically "guidos".

[Hash]

Orleans: Franco-Ontarians (30%ish). The only minorities here are basically Chinese, a few blacks and Arabs
Ottawa: there's a pretty big Somali population + Franco-Ontarians obviously

[angus]

Not a huge amount of diversity here.  Cedar Falls is 94% Non-hispanic white, 2.1% asian, 1.8% black, and smaller percentages of other groups.

But, one of the biggest minority ethnic groups is Bosnian.  The voting signs here are in English, Spanish, and Bosnian.  And I always hear Bosnian spoken in Wal*Mart, Kmart, the Dollar Tree, and other discount outlets.  

Of course, citizen of the PRC comprise 33% of the population of my household, and I regularly hear Mandarin spoken as well.  

[Insula Dei]

Which would maybe fit in better with the description

You'd be surprised. We didn't have enough people to do all the mining so we had to fly them in. (Bear in mind that mining really only took off round here in the early 20th Century!) Basically every important Turkish community in Flanders is in the urban area's or in the Limburg coal area.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Poles and Irish historically, increasingly Vietnamese and Korean.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Which would maybe fit in better with the description

You'd be surprised. We didn't have enough people to do all the mining so we had to fly them in. (Bear in mind that mining really only took off round here in the early 20th Century!) Basically every important Turkish community in Flanders is in the urban area's or in the Limburg coal area.

Oddly enough I read a (really quite crazy; Post Structuralist Oral History. Srsly) article on the subject of minority groups in the Limburg coalfield a couple of months ago, so it doesn't come as a total surprise.

Anyways... are there separate pit communities in the Limburg coalfield, or were the miners dispersed into 'ordinary' settlements?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Germans (specifically Pennsylvania Dutch).

Germans here as well, altho none of them still speak a dialect of Deutsch as a first language.  However, we do have a fairly large number of rural Lutheran churches around here as a result, and Germanic surnames are commonplace.

[Bacon King]

Hmong.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

Spokane metro area - Russians

That's about it.

[lowtech redneck]

Germans here as well, altho none of them still speak a dialect of Deutsch as a first language.  However, we do have a fairly large number of rural Lutheran churches around here as a result, and Germanic surnames are commonplace.

My own German ancestors moved to South Carolina (by way of Pennsylvania); they had joined one of those 'Great Awakening' religious groups (called the 'Tunkers', which I figure to be an ethnic German offshoot of the 'Dunkers'), and moved down there as a group.

[MaxQue]

Poles and American Indians.

[Хahar 🤔]

San Jose has a lot of Vietnamese, although for the most part other Asians live in my neighborhood.

[Joe Republic]

Tourists.

[2952-0-0]

Waterloo is famous for its German heritage and retains a large Mennonite community in the surrounding area. In fact nearby Kitchener was called Berlin before it was renamed in 1916 for obvious reasons.

I don't think there are many non-white people here except for those attached to the universities and the high tech cluster.

[Tender Branson]

Tourists.

Yeah, here as well.

Lots of them: Germans, Arabs, Dutch, Italians, Czechs, Hungarians, Russians, English, Americans and so on.

While the registered foreigners who live here are mainly Turks and people from former Yugoslavia and an increasing number of Germans.

[Napoleon]

Puertorriqueños

[Platypus]

Port Melbourne relative to Melbourne: Greeks, with a tip of the hat to non-Irish, British Catholics.

Melbourne relative to Australia: Kiwis, Greeks, Greeks, Cypriots, Greeks, Jews, Sri Lankans (both Sinhalese and Tamil), Sudanese, Kenyans, Chileans, kinda sorta Vietnamese (compared to anywhere but Sydney), and the same for almost every other group...except Saffies (Perth), non-Vietnamese Indochinese (Canberra, Sydney) and certain types of Indians.



Smid'll know the actual stats of course.

[Insula Dei]

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Given the fact that there often really were no ordinary settlements to begin with and that large parts of the area were just unused Heath, most of the miners were housed in artificial communities, the so called 'cités'.