Where you now live

[Birka]

Here is a post I made today:

"I live in rural central Pennsylvania. This area historically has been and is mostly populated by Scots-Irish and Germanics. There is a substantial population of English, Italians, Catholic Irish, some Polish and scattered Slovak/Ukrainian peoples. There are very few blacks and Hispanics, but I am starting to see more of them around.

So almost everyone that I associate with and work with are white." ---



I was thinking that this would make a great thread. Tell us where you now live, and what nationalities, races, and ethnicities live in your area. Has it always been this way, is it changing (for better or worse)? Do you like the culture your locality offers?

[Beorn]

Tell us where you now live, and what nationalities, races, and ethnicities live in your area.

White Englishmen (with and without darkened features:rolleyes:).

Where I live is right on the borders of three places within Bristol.
Bishopsworth, Withywood and Hartcliffe.
I live right close to a road with some historical significance within the area.

The name of 'hare' is OE for 'Army' and 'clive' is for a rugged outcrop of rock or cliff.
Many battles are believed to have been fought in this area and to some, the battles still wage.

If it isn't the Godwin's murdering Godfrey's, it is often some other ancient namesake.

The area is renowned in Bristol alongside the Irish Knowle-West to be the residency of white, working class folk; and it is a rough area to boot.

The make-up of people ranges from the Saxons to the Celts, the English born to the Irish born, and not much else.


Has it always been this way, is it changing (for better or worse)? Pretty much. With the fortunes of Bristol opening new avenues for the Bristolians, the place has seen a new face.
Gone is the barbed wires covering public buildings, gone are the derelict shops and run down places for trouble; all to be replaced by shiny new...Morrison's?

Haha! No, seriously, the place looks great. The rates of crime have fallen with the gentrification and the place is one to be proud of.



Do you like the culture your locality offers?Sure. It covers your Irish dancing to the west country, from skittles to football.

It has most, if not all, of the cultural identities the English love and cherish.

[Psychonaut]

Tell us where you now live, and what nationalities, races, and ethnicities live in your area.

Japanese 16.7%
Polynesian 16%
Filipino 14.1%
German 5.8%
Chinese 4.7%
Irish 4.4%
English 4.3%
Portuguese 4.0%
Puerto Rican 2.5%
Korean 1.9%
African 1.8%
Italian 1.8%
Mexican 1.6%
French 1.5%
British 1.4%
Scottish 1.1%


Hawaii also has the largest percentage of persons of mixed race, who constitute some 20% of the total population.
Source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii#Demographics) :(


Has it always been this way, is it changing (for better or worse)?

It used to be 100% Polynesian, but has been becoming an Asian melting pot for a long time now.


Do you like the culture your locality offers?

Lawds no. Hawaiian "culture" nowadays consists of speaking broken English, spray painting public property, and generally being ghetto.

[Lady L]

Where I live now...Scottsboro, Al ...A beautiful place...where the lakes meet the mountains...This is a picture of that and a dock my family has sat on...and grilled burgers...:D

http://i42.tinypic.com/sw60cg.jpg

This would be a picture of the golf course behind our house ( a bit ways ) and it is surrounded by the lake, fishermen, parks, pavilion, house boats, and a home style restaurant...:) Its called Goose Pond/Goose Pond Colony...

http://i44.tinypic.com/2znr7mc.jpg

This town is known for its " every first Monday " on the square...a massive amount of peoples selling arts, crafts, wooden rocking chairs, and anything you could imagine. It is also known for the store " Unclaimed Baggage " a store that receives lost air port baggage and sells it at a discount....its pretty darn nifty...there are also tons of thrift stores....a good place to shop, but Southern style that is...;)

And, lastly... ( This is long but its interesting...so read it....:) )


*Scottsboro is a city in Jackson County, Alabama, United States, and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2000 census, the population of the city is 14,762. Named for its founder Robert Scott, the city is the county seat of Jackson County.


Prior to Scottsboro's founding, the area encompassing the present-day city was inhabited by the Cherokee Indians. While the Tennessee Valley did not have large Native American settlements at the time of the first white settlers, there was a Cherokee town named "Crow Town" near where Scottsboro is located today.

As settlers began pouring into the Tennessee region, they found the Tennessee River to be an excellent source of food, water, and a way of shipping goods to the big cities. John Hunt, in 1805, decided to migrate to the area and built a small log cabin in the woods near the river. More people settled in the area and Huntsville was formally incorporated in 1811.

More settlers moved into the Mississippi Territory, resulting in the statehood of Mississippi, and the creation of the Alabama Territory in 1818. Delegates from Tennessee and the newly formed Madison County met in Sauta Cave and decided to admit a new county. On December 13, 1819, Jackson County was formed. Then, only one day later, the State of Alabama was admitted into the Union as the 22nd state on December 14, 1819.

The 20th century was a big step in the development of Scottsboro. In 1902, two cases of smallpox were found but fortunately the disease did not spread more widely. In 1903, the first car that came to the town drove through the square en route from Ohio to Florida.

In 1906, local blacksmith H.C. Payne built Scottsboro’s first homemade automobile, which was made with a wooden frame, four sprocket wheels, and hand-powered cranks. In 1911, the courthouse was set ablaze and was rebuilt. In 1912, the courthouse was demolished and an election was held to determine whether the courthouse would be moved to Stevenson or stay in Scottsboro (Stevenson residents did not think Scottsboro deserved the role of county seat.) Scottsboro won the vote and the present courthouse was built (before the renovation and expansion in 1954.)

Scottsboro Boys'

The Scottsboro Boys case was among the most important cases in the history of American Jurisprudence. It went to the United States Supreme Court twice and established forever the principles that, in the United States, criminal defendants are entitled to effective assistance of counsel and that people may not be de facto excluded from juries due to their race.

The case of the Scottsboro Boys arose in Scottsboro in 1931, when nine black youths, ranging in age from twelve to twenty, were accused of raping two white women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, one of whom would later recant. The victims and accused alike had all hitched rides on a passing train on the Southern Railroad freight route from Chattanooga to Memphis on March 25, 1931, which just happened to stop in Jackson County, Alabama where these women made their accusations to the local officials against these black youths. The defendants were brought to Scottsboro for trial, because it was the county seat of Jackson County.


The four trials, during the course of which most of the youths were convicted and sentenced to death by all-white juries despite the weak and contradictory testimonies of the witnesses, are now widely regarded (including in Scottsboro) as one of the worst travesties of justice perpetrated against blacks in the post-Reconstruction South. Only the first trials were held in Scottsboro. The case was, in reality, many cases that were tried only in the first instance in Depression era Scottsboro, Alabama in 1931. Of the original nine young black defendants (some of them minors), accused of gang raping two fellow hobo white women on a freight train, eight were quickly convicted in quick succeesion trials in a mob atmosphere in Scottsboro by all white juries and sentenced to death. The only two attorneys who were willing to take the cases had few qualifications for criminal defense work. They were unable to put up much of a defense when the judge gave them no time to prepare their defenses before the trials. He started the first trial as soon as they agreed to take the cases and then began each next case as soon the jury went out on the previous one.


Unfortunately, the Scottsboro defendants benefitted from their two landmark triumphs in the United States Supreme Court mostly from the fact that they were all relieved from their death sentences they received at their first trial in Scottsboro. The Supreme Court ruled both times only that the way their convictions were obtained was improper and not that they were innocent. Those convicted spent no less than six years and as many as nineteen years incarcerated in harsh jails and prisons. After the Scottsboro Boys served such long prison sentences, it is one of history's great ironies that it was arch segregationist Alabama Governor George Wallace who eventually at least partially cured this widely considered injustice, after the United States Supreme Court had failed to do so twice, by issuing a pardon many long years after the trial in 1976 for the one remaining Scottsboro defendant still subject to the Alabama penal system.

Most residents of Scottsboro, as citizens of the "New South", today acknowledge the injustice that started in their community and almost all, when the case is mentioned to them, are quick to express the wish that that fateful train had stopped a few miles short or a few miles beyond the Jackson County line. They suggest that the "Huntsville Boys" case sounds much better to their ears.

"In January 2004, amidst television cameras and radio and newspaper reporters, a crowd gathered near the Jackson County Court House in Scottsboro to dedicate a historical marker commerating the Scottsboro Boys' trial and their struggle for justice." "An 87 year old black man who attended the ceremony, one of the few who could remember the cases firsthand, recalled that the mob scene following the Boys' arrest 'was frightening' and that death threats were leveled against the jailed suspects. He applauded the town's move to install the plaque on the courthouse yard. 'I think it will bring the races closer together', he said, 'to understand each other better.'"

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 51.7 square miles (134.0 km²), of which, 47.3 square miles (122.6 km²) of it is land and 4.4 square miles (11.3 km²) of it (8.47%) is water. The water areas are the Tennessee River and its backwaters.
The section of the Tennessee River Valley that Scottsboro is in is geologically related to the Sequatchie Valley.

As of the census of 2000, there were 14,762 people, 6,224 households, and 4,201 families residing in the city. The population density was 311.8 people per square mile (120.4/km²). There were 6,848 housing units at an average density of 144.6/sq mi (55.8/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 91.11% White, 5.34% African American, 1.02% Native American, 0.54% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.56% from other races, and 1.42% from two or more races. 1.50% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottsboro,_Alabama

...:)

[Loyalist]

I live in Hamilton, Ontario, which is roughly 70 km. south of Toronto. It was originally populated by Scottish settlers, immediately followed by Loyalist refugees, themselves of English, Scottish, Welsh, German, Dutch, and French Huguenot origins, at the end of the 18th century. A wave of Irish arrived during the Famine in the mid-19th century, and established their own neighbourhood called Corktown, which is still around today (albeit the Irish have long since abandoned the area). Unfortunately, being a heavily-industrialized port city, Hamilton was one of the main recipients of the "ethnic" European wave in the early 20th century; thousands of Italians, Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews were imported for cheap labour. They now dominate the community, in contrast to the old-stock Anglo-Canadian populace, which has mostly lost touch with its roots. Within the last few decades, we've also been on the receiving end of Africans, Arabs, Asians, and, only recently, Hispanics. Surprisingly, Protestantism is still the dominant religion of the area.

According to the 2001 census, the ethnic situation is as follows:

Ethnic origin ---- Population

English - 138,125
*Canadian - 107,780
Scottish - 98,375
Irish - 80,740
Italian - 58,800
German - 47,960
French - 42,070
Polish - 27,775
Dutch - 25,720
Ukrainian - 18,730
Portuguese - 14,115
North American Indian - 11,970

*Those who reply "Canadian" are generally of old-stock (British Isles, German, Dutch, etc.) origin.

[Atlas]

We do not have race census in France but I would estimate the white population in my city to 95% which is not bad for a city of 15.000 inhabitants 1 hour outside Paris.

[Oisín]

I live in a village in east Limerick. All Irish bar a a couple of English families. In 1841 there were 5,663 people in the parish but the Famine decimated the population as people died of starvation and many emigrated to America. The population continued to decline up until recently, in the last 10 years there's been a notable increase in house building and thankfully it's all Irish families who are coming to the area. Not a brown face to be seen for miles.