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Originally Posted by Wigs
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.
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I missed this comment before, but Rochester's Latino community is mostly Puerto Rican. Indeed, I believe it is proportionately one of the most Puerto Rican mid/large sized cities in the U.S. Regardless, it's NYC spillover - something you also see throughout parts of Upstate NY, and even extending as far west as Cleveland, Ohio. Erie got a little bit from this as well, but the migration never made it to Pittsburgh. Though to be fair, west of Cleveland, Puerto Ricans didn't move anywhere except a few parts of Chicago.
Around half of Pittsburgh is doing quite well now, but there's a tranche of neighborhoods that really need a new immigrant community bad. They're the historically working-class white parts of the city where there's nary of whiff of gentrification. They are getting more diverse, but because Pittsburgh is also a pretty white metro (and much of the black population is moving to the suburbs) they aren't really transitioning into black neighborhoods, just emptying.
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