Indianapolis: over 50 years of urban "cheating"?

[Wigs]

Originally Posted by Steely Dan

That fact certainly hasn't hurt Milwaukee, but KC isn't very far behind %-wise.

And every major midwest MSA, other than chicago, is pretty far behind the national average of 18%.

There's gotta be a lot more to the story.


Midwest/Rustbelt 1M+ MSAs by latino share (2020):

chicago: 2,239,376 (23.3%)
milwaukee: 182,777 (11.6%)
kansas city: 229,233 (10.5%)
grand rapids: 110,671 (10.2%)
indianapolis: 177,787 (8.4%)
rochester: 88,854 (8.1%)
minneapolis: 242,621 (6.8%)
cleveland: 133,862 (6.4%)
buffalo: 67,476 (5.8%)
columbus: 110,967 (5.2%)
detroit: 219,953 (5.0%)
cincinnati: 95,073 (4.2%)
st. louis: 106,269 (3.8%)
pittsburgh: 52,920 (2.2%)

It's always so odd to see Pittsburgh with a Metro of almost 2.5 million has such a low percentage of Hispanic/Latino population, and Rochester, NY that's a slightly smaller Metro than Buffalo around 1.1 million have way more per capita (almost 4x) than Pittsburgh.

I love Pittsburgh and have no idea why it's not resurging. Having 250,000+ Latinos would definitely help.