This comment makes a lot of sense if you're a time traveler from several decades ago, but a lot has changed since the 1960s. There are plenty of very diverse suburbs in any sense of the word and suburbs now also run the gamut across all levels of income and affordability from the top to the bottom. If you wish to live in a suburb in America, you can, regardless of income level and regardless of what you look like and whether you want to live around people who look like you.

If there is a particular area you're thinking of where this isn't the case, it's probably an outlier -- you'll want to explore the US a bit more. Houston, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Las Vegas etc are all examples of "second tier" cities (not the new yorks, LAs, SFs of the world) that while less attractive to the wealthy who can live anywhere, have plenty of room for regular working families of all sorts.

Then there's the third rate smaller cities and large towns, where you'll also find both plenty diverse places and plenty not so diverse, and you'll find even more affordability -- but possibly not as good a job market.

I think living in a "second rate" US metro area is the sweet spot for raising a family on working incomes -- jobs are available, unlike lesser areas, but housing is affordable, unlike fancier areas.

> If you're a white-born-and-bred American,

You _really_ need to go out of the bay area a bit more

Black Americans primarily live in the southeast. Oftentimes when you see online disparagement of the south as poor and uneducated, they’re describing predominantly black communities.

Florida and Texas are bastions of Hispanic culture, for obvious reasons.

California is certainly diverse with respect to kale options in the grocery store, though, I suspect.

Well this seems incredibly ignorant. A quick google search would show a bunch of states as diverse as California.

I live in probably one of the most culturally diverse and unique areas in the US and it’s not even on the West coast.

YMMV :^)

I am white born and bred (with British parents) but I did actually originally move here to live with my brother who's a part of the LGBTQ community and was excited to be in an area with supportive folks.

Part of the reason I stay here is because I love to be around non-English languages, particularly Spanish and Portuguese. My kids first words have always been a mix of Spanish and English (thanks to our awesome spanish-speaking nannny), which I think is awesome. I hope they can continue to hear many accents and languages in their childhood.

That seems incredibly hyperbolic. You might want to consider broadening your news sources or travelling a bit.

For starters, the US as a whole is less than 60% white. And California, while big, only accounts for ~20% of the non-white population of the US. In other words, there's about 120M people that exist outside of your "99%" bubble.

What? There’s definitely wide sprawl in culture across the US, but it’s bonkers to suggest that the Bay Area is the only place for people who aren’t “white-born-and-bred”.