Me Thinks

Emily Badger wrote an article on February 1, 2017 for the New York Times titled, "Immigrant Shock: Can California Predict the Nation's Future?"   Badger wonders how the nation will handle the racial change that is only going to accelerate. Here are interesting lines from the article:

Increasing contact between groups can yield tolerance and familiarity, but it can also unnerve, especially in communities where that change is most visible.

California lashed out at diversity before embracing it.

Diversity, long considered a characteristic of big cities, has been spreading into rural America. Diversity doesn't necessarily mean communities are integrating. A new, growing group raises threat levels for longtime residents.

White voters in California may have eventually been persuaded that their Hispanic neighbors were no threat to the local economy or their children’s classrooms, but white voters in Midwestern small towns may have been unnerved by the change around them 

In the short run, diversity is difficult, but the trouble eventually ebbs. The long term is measured in terms of decades.

Where the Nonwhite Population Is the Largest

Major metropolitan areas, counties near the Mexican border and the Southern Black Belt have the highest shares of nonwhite residents.

Ark.

Calif.

Ill.

Kan.

Miss.

Ohio

Tex.

Ala.

Iowa

La.

Minn.

Mo.

Neb.

Ariz.

Colo.

Ind.

Mich.

Mont.

N.Y.

Ore.

Va.

Wyo.

N.C.

Okla.

Tenn.

Wis.

Alaska

Vt.

N.D.

Ga.

Me.

R.I.

W.Va.

Idaho

S.D.

N.M.

Wash.

Pa.

Fla.

Utah

Ky.

N.H.

S.C.

Nev.

Hawaii

N.J.

Conn.

Md.

Mass.

Del.

10

20

30

40

50

Nonwhite population share

Source: 2010–2014 American Community Survey