This is America’s Least Diverse City…and It’s Not Black or White

*This is where I grew up, and yes, it’s very Mexican-American, overwhelmingly so. It was that way in my childhood and adolescence, and it’s that way today as well. I’ll tell you what I loved about growing up in Laredo (and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, too, because I lived on both sides of the border), and it’s that aside from the pervasive “patrón” political system and class differences of the day, I never felt like I was part of a cultural minority. It builds the foundation for the rest of your life. VL

By Dora Mekouar, Voice of America

The most diverse city in the United States is Gaithersburg, Maryland, while the least ethno-racially diverse place is Laredo, Texas.

In fact, four Maryland cities — including Gaithersburg, Germantown, Silver Spring and Rockville, all in Montgomery County, right outside of Washington, D.C. —  are in the top five when it comes to diversity in small U.S. cities.

Laredo, Texas, has the highest concentration of Hispanics in the country, at 95.2 percent.

The whitest city is Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, at 90.6 percent, while Detroit, Michigan, has the highest concentration of blacks at 79.1 percent. Honolulu, Hawaii, is the city with the highest clustering of Asians, at 52.1 percent.

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