This is an odd response to an article about housing costs in Seattle, one of the whitest big cities in the country in a state that is significantly whiter than my midwestern home state of Illinois. It's funny when I hear people who moved to the Pacific Northwest brag about the lack of black/white racial tension compared to much of the rest of the country. I always think it must be easy to not have racial tension when there's no black people. But of course it's the people in the middle of the country who are the real racists.
Well, Seattle isn't very strong in that regard either... It's where the Bay Area holds a distinct advantage. That said, Seattle still has a significantly larger fraction of Asians than any Midwestern or Southern city: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Asian_American...
Note that the proportion of blacks doesn't really contribute to a cosmopolitan city - it just means the city has two dominant native cultures instead of one.
