Friday, October 12, 2012

Chapter 9:Race

http://www.city-data.com/city/Merced-California.html
As you can see from this pie chart from city-data.com, Merced consists of about 49% hispanics and about 35% whites. The Hispanic race could be considered as the "majority" in Merced. Although this chart depicts this, a visitor to Merced can easily see the mixed races and cultures and the influences it has had on the town and its economic growth. In comparison to Northridge, I think that Merced has a less diverse culture. There are hardly any people there that are two or more races, and I have met people that live here and many of them are at least two or more ethnicities. This could be because of Northridge being so close to the metropolitan of Los Angeles, and all of the immigrants that have flocked there throughout the years. The mixture is more diverse than that of Merced County.

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