>Have you ever spent extended time in other regions of the
>country that have ethnic enclaves? Say, the latino west coast
>or southwest, or the asian west coast or Atlanta Metro, or the
>black southeast, or northeast?

Yes, I grew up 10 minutes from the largest population of Middle Eastern folks outside of the Middle East (Dearborn, Michigan)


>
>The midwest is where all that american essentialist mythology
>is taken to heart FOR REAL FOR REAL. And where other parts of
>the country have at least some smatterings of immigrant
>communities or Black people in rural areas to kind of FORCE
>white people to get out of their own ass for a minute...the
>midwest lacks that outside of some of the major cities.

Disagree completely. I could name you ethnic enclaves outside of every major Midwestern City from Missouri and eastwards...I cant speak for the Dakotas if ur considering that Midwesst (some ppl do) tho lol.



And
>hell, in some major cities the black communities are FUCKED UP
>in ways that you'd be hard pressed to find in major cities in
>other parts of the country.
>
>All that leads to a white entitlement that's on a grillion

Cant comment on that. not my lane. Ill leave that up to someone else.