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Re:They Just Moved to Austin. Now They Want to End One of It... by throwaway000345 on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @12:45AM (#26563678)
When places are full of white people, minorities are brought in in the name of diversity and it's to be celebrated. When places are full of minorities and whites move in, it's gentrification and we need to write articles lamenting it.

Cultural mixing happens both ways. Sometimes inclusion means changing long standing traditions.

Re:They Just Moved to Austin. Now They Want to End One of It... by quantified on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @01:11AM (#26563830)
Have there been any natural experiments where less-wealthy white folk were priced out by more-wealthy non-white? I think the driver of gentrification is economic class not race/ethnicity. Wealthier and whiter show up together but may not be the same thing.
Re:They Just Moved to Austin. Now They Want to End One of It... by masonic on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @04:35AM (#26564812)

  Have there been any natural experiments where less-wealthy white folk were priced out by more-wealthy non-white?
Cupertino and Saratoga CA are exactly such experiments.
Re:They Just Moved to Austin. Now They Want to End One of It... by quantified on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @11:54AM (#26568848)
Is the word “gentrification” used in describing the shift?
Re:They Just Moved to Austin. Now They Want to End One of It... by masonic on Thursday March 25, 2021 @02:38AM (#26577139)
No, because gentrification involves conversion/upgrade of the properties. The properties themselves are largely unchanged; only the owner demographics have changed.
Re:They Just Moved to Austin. Now They Want to End One of It... by reducesuffering on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @09:48AM (#26567122)
Basically most of the Bay Area
Re:They Just Moved to Austin. Now They Want to End One of It... by quantified on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @11:53AM (#26568825)
Go on? There are areas where more-wealthy South Asians are prominent, I don’t know if they took over from whites or Latinos though (Cupertino, etc.). White and Asian techies and financiers have displaced white and Latino non-techies, overall. I’m sure there are towns and neighborhoods I’m missing the picture on.
Re:They Just Moved to Austin. Now They Want to End One of It... by reducesuffering on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @04:34PM (#26572520)
Gentrification is a process of changing the character of a neighborhood through the influx of more affluent residents and businesses.[0]

Cities like Fremont, Union City, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Cupertino were pretty much 80% white 50 years ago. They're now about 24-34%. With housing prices at $1-3M here, do you think that most of those white people went on to afford even more expensive homes elsewhere? Mostly not, they're priced out of their hometowns. You can see this in California migration patterns, where many more Americans emigrate California cheaper states than immigrate (you could consider some of them "gentrified") while CA adds population from immigrants internationally, and thus the population is steady.

Of course, it's "techies", really affluence, displacing non-techies, rather than any racial motivation.

Upon checking, it doesn't look like overall Hispanic populations are being displaced out of the Bay Area. It looks like some areas like SF and Fremont have slightly lower Hispanic populations from 2000-2018, whereas cities Hayward and San Jose increased by a further amount.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification

Re:They Just Moved to Austin. Now They Want to End One of It... by richiezc on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @01:21AM (#26563880)
vancouver?
Re:They Just Moved to Austin. Now They Want to End One of It... by fuzxi on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @01:33AM (#26563940)
Quite a bit of Canada, I'd wager.
Re:They Just Moved to Austin. Now They Want to End One of It... by isabelc on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @02:00AM (#26564049)
Miami, Florida
Re:They Just Moved to Austin. Now They Want to End One of It... by selimthegrim on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @11:45AM (#26568707)
Parts of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia
Re:They Just Moved to Austin. Now They Want to End One of It... by quantified on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @11:56AM (#26568878)
Those are classic cities where the word “gentrification” might get used. Now for the interesting part- has that word been used as part of describing the changes?
Re:They Just Moved to Austin. Now They Want to End One of It... by ReadFList on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @11:15AM (#26568280)
“The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.” -Carl Schmitt

Just guess who is the be seen as the enermy, guilty of some original sin that must be attoned at all times.