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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't get where people think that Fairfax County is some homogeneous white enclave.  It is the largest jurisdiction - 1.2 million - and accounts for 20 percent of the total population of the Washington MSA.  The county is 62% white, 17% Asian, 15% Hispanic and 9% black, with a smattering of other ethnicities rounding out the rest.

Over 100 different languages are spoken in Fairfax County, with the top 6 being:

1.  Spanish
2.  Korean
3.  Vietnamese
4.  Arabic
5.  Urdu
6.  Chinese/Mandarin

McLean is hardly representative of Fairfax County.  [/quote]

You mean English is no longer among the top six languages in Fairfax County?  Wow.  Definitely time to move to Loudoun.  [/quote]

62% white in Fairfax County is still far-and-away a white majority.

The Los Angeles demographics break down 39.7 % white (L.A. still has a lot of the old, multi-generation Angeleno, "Anglo" families with your California stereotype blue-eyes and sun-bleached blond hair), 38.1 % Latino, 13.6 % Asian, and 6.6% African American.

Also, Fairfax County segregates itself A LOT!

McLean, VA, is almost exclusively white and well off.  Bailey's Crossroads has many Latinos.  If you do not think that this segregation is purposeful and motivated by an inherent bias, please read these message boards more carefully when parents complain about certain school districts being overrun by the Latino immigrants, or about ESOL instruction.

Los Angeles is very ethnically and economically mixed throughout all of its neighborhoods, so that you do not have a majority caucasian school like Langley.   Even L.A.'s traditional, old, waspy neighborhoods now have equally large populations of multi-generation, Angeleno Mexican and Chinese families.

Come spend some time out here, and then tell me that Fairfax County even begins to approximate the diversity and interactive mix of cultures that exists here in L.A.  I have lived both places, and I love both Fairfax County and L.A., but it does not.[/quote]

Nothing against Latinos but you do realize that the FARMS percentage almost always reflect the number of hispanics in the schools?

Look at the greatschools.net and the percentages are always almost the same.[/quote]

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