On Sep 27, 8:10*am, "foad" wrote:
"Stratum101" wrote in message

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Is Texas a good place to live?
Well, in a free society, you can
thrive anywhere. *Dallas is far
more integrated among blacks and
whites. *But black people, comprising
maybe 35% of the local population
are the only significant minority.

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There are no hispanics in Dallas? That seems odd. Or do you lump all the
coloreds together for demographic purposes. Let's go to the video tape

Dallas, Texas

White 50.8%
Hispanic / Latino * 35.6%
Black 25.9%

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48/4819000.html

So to recap: you're very observant and nearly everything you say is as if
Moses brought it down the mountain personally.

That's an interesting stat, and is repeated in the
Wikipedia entry "Demographics of Dallas".

I am surprised that Latinos outnumber blacks. That blacks
are half the white population does seem about what
I see. I being from California where Latinos are the largest
minority would notice. (Converseley, when I was at the
U. of Texas in the 1960s, I thought San Antonio, 75 miles
away from Austin, looked just like a mini-Los Angeles.)

I do not know where Dallas Latinos are hiding and
I don't think they've assimilated. I did note that
part of Walnut Hill where I lived at the end of the
1960s now looks predominantly Latino in the
vicinity of Webb Chapel at Northwest
Highway, but that's only a small part of
North Dallas.

Anyway, I welcome some yummy food
(and non-chain places!) being added to the
local cuisine by Latinos' inclusion. I look
for places with "Baja" in their name which
implies northwest Mexican cuisine, the
kind which is everywhere in Los Angeles.

The L.A. style quesadilla is one of the
basic food groups, and helps to prevent
under-employment among cardiologists
and oncologists. Your native Dallas
quesadilla is a pitiful imitation fit only
for Weight Watchers.