Monday, February 11, 2013

On February 2013, the Texas Monthly published an article titled "What nobody says about Austin" where they question if Austin is the State's most segregated city.
The author of the article described Austin as a prideful city with cultural liberalism and sophistication and believed it to be a very diverse city. As a Tejana she knows that Latinos make up 35 percent of Austin’s population but as a newcomer she was surprised that she didn't see as many as she did in San Antonio, Houston, and other places she had visited. 
Later on in the article she, then, learned that she had just been in the West side of Austin which is basically a different city than the East side divided up by Interstate Highway 35, making the West side majorly white, and East side majorly Latino or black. 
To me this was an interesting article because nobody really acknowledges how diverse Austin is and how overwhelming it can be for newcomers to get settled in this beautiful, yet, diverse city.

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