{"id":72762,"date":"2015-08-18T07:07:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T15:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=72762"},"modified":"2015-08-18T07:07:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T15:07:33","slug":"steve-sailer-the-demographics-of-moneys-best-places-to-live-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=72762","title":{"rendered":"Steve Sailer: The Demographics of “MONEY’s Best Places to Live 2015”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Sailer writes<\/a>: Keep in mind the magazine gives bonus points for diversity, eliminates any place at least 95% white, and excludes very wealthy towns. And it\u2019s all pretty subjective to allow for novelty needed to sell magazines. But, still, these all sound like pretty nice places.<\/p>\n

Real estate tip: Asians appear to serve as a leading indicator. There are a lot of places in the U.S. that are disproportionately white because they are on the upswing, but then there are other places that are highly white because nothing much is happening there (e.g., a lot of West Virginia). But predominantly white towns where the Asian to black ratio and Asian to Hispanic ratio are high do very well in these kind of lists.<\/p>\n

Nationally, the (white + Asian) \/ (black + Hispanic) ratio is only 2.2 to 1. But none of these towns drop below 5 to 1, and 7 of the Top 10 are over 10 to 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Sailer writes: Keep in mind the magazine gives bonus points for diversity, eliminates any place at least 95% white, and excludes very wealthy towns. And it\u2019s all pretty subjective to allow for novelty needed to sell magazines. But, still, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29733],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t