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Have you been to Columbia recently? Columbia has a large number of recent immigrants from moderate backgrounds. Whether that's a draw or not is another story [/quote]

Would you call two weeks ago recently? Moderate backgrounds, maybe. But MoCo has a much larger population of hand-to-mouth laborers from Latin American backgrounds. Don't get me wrong, HoCo has its virtues, but like the rest of metro Baltimore, it hasn't had the recent growth of DC and has lacked the growth in low-end labor markets that counties neighboring DC has.

HoCo feels like the 70s to many of us: a much more egalitarian place with some accompanying declines in diversity. Yes, that doesn't not mean that everyone there is white, but it is notably more white and more universally educated than MoCo.[/quote]

NP here.  Here's some actual numbers from the 2010 Census:

Columbia:  55% Caucasian, 25% African American, 11% Asian, 7% Hispanic
Bethesda:  83% Caucasian, 3% African American, 9% Asian, 7% Hispanic
Rockville:  60% Caucasian, 10% African American, 21% Asian, 14% Hispanic
Silver Spring:  46% Caucasian, 28% African American, 8% Asian, 26% Hispanic
Wheaton:  26% Caucasian, 18% African American, 12% Asian, 42% Hispanic
Mont Cty:  57% Caucasian, 17% African American, 14% Asian, 17% Hispanic

(numbers may add to more than 100% because Hispanics come from different races and may overlap the other numbers)

So, while Columbia is not as diverse as Silver Spring and Wheaton, it is more diverse than Bethesda or Rockville.  Taking MoCo as a whole, it's not that much more diverse than Columbia--certainly not enough for the emphatic insistence that MoCo is far more diverse than Columbia.  It's pretty close.[/quote]

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