In the pioneer West Whitopias, immigration tended to be the dominant social and racial issue. In Forsyth County, Georgia, immigration is still an issue, but because you have that complicated history of the Trail of Tears and slavery and Jim… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
With growing and intermixed minority populations, our democracy can not work optimally unless all people are integrated as full and equal members, and I… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
If I were an immigrant Latino not born in the US, I could not have written Searching for Whitopia: An Improbably Journey to the Heart of America book. And that is because many of the Whitopians would not have been comfortable talking about their views on immigration, talking about their views on taxes. And they wouldn't have spilled to me… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share
The reason our country looks the way it does is through social engineering that distinctly benefits suburban communities, exurban communities, and often white residents.… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
I was surprised by how forces in the community could mobilize against a community changing. There were many examples of this. In St. George,… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
It's the texture of New York that people miss by filming elsewhere. There are layers and layers of character - even in the pavement… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
When well-qualified, upper middle-class blacks or Latinos or Asians move to predominantly white neighborhoods, there's what's called the tipping point. That tipping point is… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
In the pioneer West Whitopias, immigration tended to be the dominant social and racial issue. In Forsyth County, Georgia, immigration is still an issue,… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
People would say, "You know, Rich, it's nature. Birds of a feather flock together." I have to point out to them that, no, that's… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
I don't want to live in a monoculture of any kind. I don't want to live in a wealthy monoculture, a black monoculture. I… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
Louisville, Colorado, which was just voted by CNN and Money magazine as the best place to live, is a veritable Whitopia that is unaffected… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
Problem with segregation isn't that people can't live in peaceful harmony singing "Kumbaya" - although that wouldn't be bad. The problem is that many… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
