Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Where My Desis At? And Look- They Be Non-Angry...

I was playing-- ahem, "working" on the Census website today, because I got distracted by reading this article. I in typical nerd, need to fact check it.


What this means is that by 2010 Indian-Americans will reach the 4.5 million mark, while South Asians will cross the 5.5 million mark. In other words Desis are expected to constitute 1.5 % of the total American population of 2010.

Recall that according to previous census counts Asian Indians increased 110 percent from 428,224 (1980) to 815,447 (1990), and 106% from 815,447 (1990) to 1,678,765 (2000). The Census also ranked Asian Indians as the third largest Asian American group after Chinese Americans and Filipino Americans. Indian Americans also had the largest percentage increase of the six major Asian groups in the U.S.
Or course, reading this made me think where the heck are all these people living? I did some Census crunching on South Asian Americans using the 2000 data (despite what that article said, 2005 ACS ethnic breakdown is so sketch) and this is what I got, based on Metropolitan areas. South Asian American is defined as Asian Indians + Bangladeshis+ Pakistanis + Sri Lankans.

Top Cities of South Asian Americans
  1. NYC (251,121)
  2. Chicago (132,811)
  3. Washington DC tri-state area (90,705)
  4. Los Angeles/Long Beach (73,489)
  5. Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon, NJ (71,116)
  6. San Jose (70,581)
  7. Houston (63,657)
  8. Oakland (59,103)
  9. Philadelphia (48,240)
  10. Dallas (46,182)
  11. Detroit (45,459)
  12. Nassau-Suffolk, NY (40,670)
  13. Boston (33,336)
  14. Orange County (31,914)
  15. Newark, NJ (30,614)
  16. Bergen-Passaic NJ (29,429)
  17. Jersey City, NJ (23,675)
  18. Seattle (20,475)
  19. San Fransisco (19,170)
  20. Baltimore, MD (18,738)
Interesting, very interesting... Now what would happen if we compare this top twenty list to that of the top 20 angriest cities in the nation? Would there be any commonalities?

Detriot (3rd Angriest/11th Desi)
Baltimore (4th Angriest/20th Desi)
Dallas (16th Angriest/10th Desi)
Houston (17th Angriest/7th Desi)


THAT's it. You know what this tells me? Where there are desis, there are far less angry people.
Or non-desis be hella more angry than us brown folks. People should heed and move to cities with more desis. They will be much happier.

6 comments:

tamasha said...

Awesome! So glad I live in NYC!

Nonedone said...

Well, yes, we're not angry people at all- in America, England or even Fiji.

But your commonality is mere coincidence.

R_K_Khan said...

Thkz 4 tha statz. Now Imm'a rob you and use 'em like they're minez, LoL. Juz playin'!

-MirRajshah

BidiSmoker said...

As someone born in Detroit, I can tell you that people there are mostly angry because they are largely black, unemployed and poor. Those are also prevalent conditions in Dallas, Houston and Baltimore. Coincidentally, those all happen to be traits the typical desi immigrant avoids when choosing a place in America to settle.

FYI- I think I'm in love with you, even though I've never seen with you. I think it's the girl power you seem to radiate as well as your willingness to spit the truth in the face of the Man. Keep it up.

Chaitan Bandela said...

What about Atlanta? Plenty of desis here.

R_K_Khan said...

I can tell you that people there are mostly angry because they are largely black, unemployed and poor. Those are also prevalent conditions in Dallas, Houston and Baltimore. Coincidentally, those all happen to be traits the typical desi immigrant avoids when choosing a place in America to settle.

guatham, there are a lot of desi thugz here in Queens that I hang wit sumtimez, and they are angry LoL. They make a ton of money too doing what they do.