well, I once was talking with a person at school and I asked them what they thought about the city and they said it's really similar to both Albuquerque and 1990's California, and it's very hot. I still don't know what they meant by that so I saw some pictures of Albuquerque and, yes, they were right. For context, I live in another country that has close ties to the United States, so maybe that's why!!

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[–] squiblet@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I’ve lived in Denver and Albuquerque and I don’t think the difference is quite as dramatic as you make it sound. As someone else noted there are way more Black people in Denver and Aurora. Considering the metro is like 5x the size of Albuquerque, too, there are more Hispanic people here than the entire population of Albuquerque.

https://statisticalatlas.com/place/Colorado/Denver/Race-and-Ethnicity

Denver: 53% white, 30% Hispanic, 10% black, 3.5% Asian, and I assume the remainder African/Native.

https://statisticalatlas.com/place/New-Mexico/Albuquerque/Race-and-Ethnicity

Albuquerque: 40% white, 47% Hispanic, 3% black, 2.5% Asian, plus others making up 5%.

Then also Aurora, a city about the size of Albuquerque functioning as Denver’s largest suburb…

https://statisticalatlas.com/place/Colorado/Aurora/Race-and-Ethnicity

48% white, 28% Hispanic, 15% black, 5.5% Asian, others 5%.