RSSWithin California, Orange County is an example of how demographics is destiny. My uncle was a rookie Detroit cop during the 67 race riots, but bolted to Orange County shortly thereafter. He was heavily involved in the John Birch Society which is a shell of its former self in OC.
Just ~20 years ago Orange County was still one of the most conservative counties in the entire country. That was around the time Loretta Sanchez defeated Bob Dornan for his congressional seat. Orange County also sent illustrious John G. Schmitz to Congress. In 64 it was one of only 18 counties outside of the deep south to vote for Goldwater.
Maybe the mestizos from Oaxaca just need to read the Federalist Papers & they will be Reaganites in no time.
This is how I think of Jonathan Chait when he acts snooty towards bad whites about racism. He went to high school in Bloomfield Hills, MI which is less than 1.5% black. His parents were part of the Jewish families who fled once heavily Jewish Southfield, MI when middle class blacks from Detroit started to move to Southfield.
Detroit’s downtown area has been in a gentrification process the last 6 years. Most of the white residents downtown are swpl millennials with no kids.
Outside of downtown there are two neighborhoods in Detroit that have more than a handful of white people. The southwest part of the city is mainly white and mexican. There is also a neighborhood on the west side called Brightmoor that is full of heroin addicts. Southwest Detroit has one of the only 3 Catholic high schools that still operate in the Detroit city limits. The public school in southwest Detroit is Western High School and it is about 50% hispanic 25% white and 25 % black. It is the 2nd best performing public school in Detroit after Renaissance High School which is comprised of mostly African American students from the city’s upper middle class African American population. Renaissance is a selective high school that requires testing to gain entrance.
I grew up in Detroit in the late 80s and early 90s. My father was a Detroit Public School teacher. Our neighborhood was comprised of Detroit city workers such as teachers, cops, employees of the sanitation dept., and firemen. Most were African American. Including myself, the majority of the kids in the small neighborhood were sent to parochial schools by their parents. Detroit Public Schools hasn’t had a significant number of white students since the mid 70s.
Hamtramck, MI is technically not a suburb of Detroit as the entire city of Hamtramck is surrounded by Detroit’s city limits. Hamtramck has a lot of immigrants from Yemen who make up a large portion of the high school in Hamtramck.