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Originally Posted by Tosin007
That's not necessarily true now is it? Portland does have a good number of Minorities. (Though I will admit not many), it's Percentages for sure are far closer to Mid-Sized Canadian Cities though. It isn't on the level of our 6 Biggest up here.  |
Again, Portland has the lowest % of African Americans of any major U.S. city and metro. It would be really shocking if it had a high murder rate.
Murder rates are very heavily correlated with % black. The blackest metro, Memphis, usually has the highest murder rate. The blackest city, Detroit, usually has the highest murder rate. The other contenders all have very high % black: Baltimore, St. Louis, New Orleans.
Has nothing to do with "minorities"; Chinese or Persians or whatever are irrelevant. Asians have far lower murder rates than whites; Hispanics have higher murder rates than whites but not a huge difference.
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