It's nothing racial. NE teams just don't prefer athletic, fast, powerful, coordinated athletes. They prefer kicking everyone's ass with slow, uncoordinated, play makers that run good routes but lack athletisicm.
I disagree, Boston is the most racially aware city in America, at least that I've ever been to.
Of course they are that's how we keep things segregated
Yep. Walking the Freedom Trail one day I couldn't help but notice that they still have Irish neighborhoods, Polish neighborhoods, Italian neighborhoods. Don't see that out west.
Yeah Asians are strange that way but you don't see ethnic European communities out west like you do in the east. No Italian neighborhoods or Irish or Polish etc. I saw store signs in Boston written in Italian and Polish.
I'm not familiar with Polish areas of Boston? As for Irish and Italian you're spot on. Just like in NY and Chicago. These old neighborhoods date back to when those ethnic groups migrated thru Ellis Island and other ports of entry into the US. These cities were founded 200 years ago. Before the days of social media. So naturally people settled with like people.
Yeah I know there is a large Polish population out in Western Mass. I've seen Jewish and Greek areas around Boston. Cambodian population in Lowell, Brazilian and Portuguese population south of Boston.
I haven't spent much time out in western MA. I had an aunt who lived out there. Visited a couple times as a kid. That and the basketball HOF was the only reason I went out that way.
Seems it is just the parochial and xenophobic east coast cities who have themAgain. A big city orientation. New York, Baltimore, Phiily all have "Little Italy's, Irish sections, Little Russia's etc. There is a supermarket near that cater to the Russian and to me some of the meats, look outright disgusting. To me anyways.
I don't know if the West has the same concentration of different ethnic groups like the East or Big Cities have..
White Bread...
I bet a lot of these neighborhoods aren't what they used to be, since most of them also had a lot character and "color" they've become popular.
The North End in Boston is still known it's Italian food and flavor but a lot have sold their condos and houses for huge mark-ups and moved to the burb to those people who want an interesting neighborhood in the downtown Boston.
That has got to be the reason.
But they don't mix, they stay separate or parochial. Nothing to be ashamed of, just different. Its kind of cool.
It's not the entire reason but it certainly plays a large roll. If you know anything about human dimension, sociology or anthropology like people associate with like people for communication, culture, well being and the like.
Wrong again it's already been mentioned cities like Chicago, LA, Seattle have them. How many cities have major Cuban or Spanish neighborhoods that are not on the east coast. Well ok we don't consider Miami the east coast. More like the west side of Cuba. You need to take into account how long some of these cities have been around. Many Europeans never move far from Mamma and Pappa.
