Audacious Epigone has a table derived from the Pew Research Center of net migration trends for white people in the housing bubble years of 2005 to 2007.
By 2007, Idaho had 4.6 percent more white people than it had in 2005, making it the country's #2 Whitopia for that period. During those years 384,000 residents of America (i.e., not immigrants from foreign countries) moved into Idaho and 307,000 moved out. So, net, Idaho added 77,000 Americans from interstate migration over that period, of whom 53,000 were white.
The term "whitopia" comes from a black author, Rich Benjamin, whose recent book "Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America," took him to places like Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, which he found to be pretty darn nice. In the course of his research, he took up golf and discovered that he really enjoys it. (The fourth picture down here is of the Coeur d'Alene golf course.)
Interestingly, Hispanics only accounted for 2,000 and Asians 1,000 of the net increase in Idaho. Blacks, however, made up 22,000 of the net increase in Idaho. So, Idaho is also a new Blacktopia. Who knew?
In 2008, McCain carried 65 percent of the white vote in Idaho.
In 2008, McCain carried 65 percent of the white vote in Idaho.
In contrast, the #1 Whitopia for 2005-2007 is a place where Obama carried 86 percent of the white:, of course, Washington D.C. The nation's capital lost from interstate migration (i.e., not from immigration/emigration), net, 37,000 blacks, 5,000 Hispanics, and 2,000 Asians. But it gained 10,000 whites, for a net increase in its white population of 5.1 percent just from 2005 to 2007.
According to the 2008 exit poll, whites accounted for 35% of all votes in D.C., despite a huge black turnout for Obama. African-Americans were down to 56%. This sense within D.C. of the inevitable triumph of white liberal technocrats, leading to a whitopia of good public schools and high property values, was given a rude shock by the technocratic Fenty administration being given the boot in 2010 by black voters.
According to the 2008 exit poll, whites accounted for 35% of all votes in D.C., despite a huge black turnout for Obama. African-Americans were down to 56%. This sense within D.C. of the inevitable triumph of white liberal technocrats, leading to a whitopia of good public schools and high property values, was given a rude shock by the technocratic Fenty administration being given the boot in 2010 by black voters.
According to the 2008 exit poll, whites accounted for 35% of all votes in D.C., despite a huge black turnout for Obama. African-Americans were down to 56%. This sense within D.C. of the inevitable triumph of white liberal technocrats, leading to a whitopia of good public schools and high property values, was given a rude shock by the technocratic Fenty administration being given the boot in 2010 by black voters.
ReplyDeleteLast we checked, 56 was still bigger than 35.
Race and Obama in the same thread?
ReplyDeleteThe infinite wisdom of "Truth" will soon be visited upon us...
Pah. Never cared for golf courses. I prefer more naturalistic artifice.
ReplyDeletePah. Never cared for golf courses. I prefer more naturalistic artifice.
ReplyDeleteHas anybody ever combined the aesthetics of Japanese gardens with a golf course?
Why look for interstate migrations?
ReplyDeleteMost influential whites seeking refuge in Whitopia are liberal elites mostly living in largely coastal urban enclaves. They do all they can to shelter their families from the vibrant diversity all around them.
East Palo Alto
6% White/Asian (not Polynesian)
$44,006 family income
<< across Highway 101 from >>
Palo Alto, CA
93% White/Asian (not Polynesian)
$153,197 family income
"Race and Obama in the same thread?
ReplyDeleteThe infinite wisdom of "Truth" will soon be visited upon us..."
Dude, do you really think you're going to get the knowledge that easily?
Spelling: It's Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
ReplyDeleteCoeur = "heart" in French
I predict that the odds of D.C. gaining statehood increase dramatically as the percentage of rich, white liberals increases. It will be proof positive that Dems care more about rich, white, childless urban liberals than about poor blacks. Look for it the next time Dems control the government. Yes, they'll take two more senators any day, but they'll only truly care about it when rich liberals control the city.
ReplyDeleteAlso, rich white liberals segregating themselves from minorities?
See: San Francisco. At 29.3%, it has the highest percentage of schoolchildren in private schools.
You know that movie Escape from New York? I've had this vision of that in reverse: white elites building 20 foot walls around Manhattan, DC, etc., and hiring a bunch of mercenaries to keep the riffraff out. Then the rest of us beyond the pale are on our own.
ReplyDeleteYou know that movie Escape from New York? I've had this vision of that in reverse: white elites building 20 foot walls around Manhattan, DC, etc., and hiring a bunch of mercenaries to keep the riffraff out. Then the rest of us beyond the pale are on our own.
ReplyDeleteI seem to recall that that movie is called Judge Dredd.
You know that movie Escape from New York? I've had this vision of that in reverse: white elites building 20 foot walls around Manhattan, DC, etc., and hiring a bunch of mercenaries to keep the riffraff out.
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Reminds me of "Land of the Dead", where the humans live on a fortified urban island away from the zombie hoards. Within the safe zone, a small elite lives in a guarded luxury building while the rest of the humans inhabit crowded slums.
Impossibly expensive housing, surrounded by cramped substandard housing, which is in turn surrounded by Armageddon. A good metaphor for what will happen to the white middle class, I think.
Land of the Dead (2005)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418819/
Interestingly, Hispanics only accounted for 2,000 and Asians 1,000 of the net increase in Idaho. Blacks, however, made up 22,000 of the net increase in Idaho. So, Idaho is also a new Blacktopia. Who knew?
ReplyDeleteAre you sure you don't have the Hispanic and Black figures switched?