As far as I could tell, everyone in Dallas/Austin/Houston/San Antonio lives in gated communities with almost nothing in walking distance and very, very few people walking around.

Thats the same thing with California outside of SF and some parts of LA...

People walk all over LA. It would be weird to look down the street and not see a couple people walking along the sidewalk at any given time. The sidewalks are filled with food carts, fruit carts, random goods merchants, impromptu daily farmers markets, as well as tent encampments.

Pasadena though? Absolutely.

Eh you might as well consider some people living in SF/LA in a gated community. If you Uber/Lyft from home to work to your favorite restaurant you’re not really in the community.

I live in Houston and I'll agree it's not a great place to walk except for a few expensive neighborhoods but I've never notice any gated communities.

Here in Houston we have a few gated communities here and there, e.g., Stablewood, just outside the West Loop and off of Memorial Drive to the south. Agreed about the walking.

Why do you need real integrated diversity anyway? Because it's politically correct?

Let me tell you something about human nature, people like to hang out with people that look like them (and animals in the wild do this too). It's natural, they have similar culture, and therefore similar interests, it's easier to have a conversion if you come from a similar background as someone else.

I have been to Texas a few times, a few different cities, and anecdotally I noticed it is no different from the Bay Area: Whites generally hangout with Whites, Blacks hang out with Blacks, Indians with Indians, Asians with Asians , etc..

It's not racism, it's just human nature.