Bridgeport (Lincoln, Princeton: home, live in, store)

[Avengerfire]

Certain parts of Bridgeport are still heavily White and Irish. If you are in those areas you sure can feel unwelcome.

I dont feel unwelcome, but some might.

[andrew61]

Originally Posted by Avengerfire

Certain parts of Bridgeport are still heavily White and Irish. If you are in those areas you sure can feel unwelcome.

I dont feel unwelcome, but some might.

Anyone else see today's RedEye article on Chicago diversity? I was surprised to see that Bridgeport was ranked Chicago's 4th most diverse neighborhood.

Very few blacks call Bridgeport home to this day, but according to the article, the area is only 38 percent white, and houses large Hispanic and Asian populations (which is what I'd suspected):

Chicago diversity: A look at Chicago's Top 20 diverse 'hoods (http://redeye.chicagotribune.com/red-072808-hoods-side,0,380194.story - broken link)

[Avengerfire]

Originally Posted by andrew61

Anyone else see today's RedEye article on Chicago diversity?...

Chicago diversity: A look at Chicago's Top 20 diverse 'hoods (http://redeye.chicagotribune.com/red-072808-hoods-side,0,380194.story - broken link)

The criterion they used is flawed. About half of the communities they claim are "diverse" are not really diverse at all.

[MannheimMadman]

lol.

Although my dad did get jumped after a white sox game back in '92. We *were* near 35th and Lowe.

[andrew61]

Originally Posted by Avengerfire

The criterion they used is flawed. About half of the communities they claim are "diverse" are not really diverse at all.

The article states they weighted by ethnicity the most, then income, then age. How would you have done it differently?

I did find it a trifle off the wall that Bridgeport outranked places like Edgewater and Albany Park. That didn't quite ring true to me.

Also, I'm puzzled by the classification of "Other" in the article's ethnicity stats. After White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian, what's left?

[Avengerfire]

Tell me how this area "diverse."
Here is an example:

20. BRIGHTON PARK

Ethnicity:
15% White (non-Hispanic)
1% Black
3% Asian
80% Hispanic
52% Other

Income
48% Low income
46% Middle income
6% High income

Age:
33% Children
54% Adults
13% Seniors

[andrew61]

Originally Posted by Avengerfire

Tell me how this area "diverse."
Here is an example:

20. BRIGHTON PARK

Ethnicity:
15% White (non-Hispanic)
1% Black
3% Asian
80% Hispanic
52% Other

Income
48% Low income
46% Middle income
6% High income

Age:
33% Children
54% Adults
13% Seniors

Well, I'd say that 80 percent Hispanic is not really very diverse at all. But what troubles me more about those ethnicity figures is that the percentages don't add up (what is "52% Other"?).

[Avengerfire]

Originally Posted by andrew61

Well, I'd say that 80 percent Hispanic is not really very diverse at all...

I mean you can also name like 15 60-80% black community areas and call them diverse using their method. Why are they not mentioned?

It is weird, several of these areas that are mentioned have a huge "hispanic" majority and they are called diverse, but there are no comparable black areas mentioned. Hmmm...

[hmwatts27]

Originally Posted by Drover

Then either you lived in Bridgeport in 1974 and has changed a ton since you lived there, or you didn't know crap about your own neighborhood. Bridgeport isn't even majority-white, much less "all Irish." That tired old stereotype misses the mark by a huge margin.

Wow, you are an angry person, huh? Is that why you come on these forums, to unleash your anger? I am allowed to have my own interpretation, thanks. When I lived there in 2001 that is what the neighborhood was like in my eyes.

[Irishtom29]

Many working class Irish consider Mexicans "white" so to speak. I know several Irish-Mexican marriages, some from Bridgeport. I have Mexican kinsmen.