have you ever wanted to know what the widest cities in the United States are if you said
yes today you're going to find out two weeks ago we did the widest states in the U.S followed a
few days later by the black Estates and I'm going to kind of give you the same intros I
did for those videos here goes a few months ago I caved to public pressure I usually avoid race
related videos but I had so many requests for this one I figured it was time to do it people
pointed out that it's not just racists that want to know the demographics of a location people of
different races want to know good places to live so they could kind of be amongst their
own in some cases you know the same type of festivals maybe the same churches same Foods
they're accustomed to when that was explained to me that way it made sense and a few months
ago I made the most Asian States followed by the most Hispanic States today we do the
whitest cities in the U.S and in a week or so we'll do the blackest cities now there's some
clarification I got to give you when I say white I mean what the U.S census considers
only white yes that is a category there's other cat categories that include Hispanic
whites and that's usually things like Mexican Americans Puerto Ricans Cuban Americans Brazilian
Americans you know people that are two or three generations in the United States they're just
Heritage happens to come from Brazil Mexico Cuba whatever got it get it good let's take a look
number 10 Omaha Nebraska
bahas in a state where you can get a hayride any time of the year in the early days the Omaha area
was the home of the Pawnee and the Sioux Indians and on July 21st 1804 Lewis and Clark passed
through this area and noted that the territory would be a good area to establish a trading post
and possibly a fortified Trading Post during the Trek West Mormons established the first non-native
settlement in the region at what would become known as cutlers Park to give you an idea the
non-hispanic white thing if we were gauging that on this one and ranking it by that they would
be about 77 percent white with Hispanic but the white only Omaha Nebraska is 66.8 percent White
number nine Fort Wayne Indiana don't worry this entire list just isn't Middle America
but Fort Wayne is definitely Middle America and it is definitely white the actual Fort
that was here called Fort Wayne was built in 1794 by the United States Army under the
direction of American Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne so they decided to name the place
after him years later Fort Wayne became a main part of the Pennsylvania Railroad and
soon became known as Altoona of the west by the late 1800s Fort Wayne had really
started to grow with the railroad dropping off European immigrants that were just pouring out
of the East Coast they're all looking for jobs back in the day Farms needed a lot
of people these days 67.8 percent of the population of Fort Wayne Indiana is white
number eight Colorado Springs Colorado yeah I could see this one I'm not surprised about
this one at all been years since I lived in Colorado Springs but back 20 or so years ago
it was so white the number one condiment was mild salsa and it really doesn't look like
much has changed 68.7 percent of Colorado Springs population is considered white
number seven Gilbert Arizona another one that's not a shocker in my experience just about any
city in Arizona wouldn't be a shocker if they showed up on this list every time I've been to
Gilbert Arizona I get the vibe that the number one concern in this city is getting a good seed
at some early bird special restaurant I like Gilbert though Gilbert's a really nice Arizona
town I'm not a big desert person but Gilbert's a nice place to live and they got a really cool
water tower in town 69.7 percent of Gilbert Arizona's residents are identified as white
number six Portland Oregon I have to admit I'm a little surprised at this one I knew they'd be
close I didn't think Portland would make it into the top ten for the widest cities in the United
States Portland Maine 100 but they're really not big enough that's one thing I should have
mentioned at the beginning we are only including the top 100 most populated cities so I'm sure
you could find some little towns in Vermont that are rocking a 90 but yeah we're looking at bigger
cities if you know the history of Oregon this probably won't surprise you because they've got
kind of a racist past I mean they had things in their constitution on it only being a white State
that's true Oregon began as a whites only state through a series of black exclusionary laws that
were designed to discourage black Americans from living here I mean in 1859 they put a thing in
the Constitution that outlawed blacks from owning property now that's the whole state of Oregon and
we're focusing on cities but Portland is Oregon's largest city those things obviously been taken out
out of Oregon's Constitution but that definitely slowed the migration of non-white people into
Oregon these days about 70.5 percent of Portland Oregon's population is identified as white
number five Madison Wisconsin this one is not a surprise at all I guess the only surprise
for me is someone who's been here several times is they're not higher on the list I
was doing a video on Milwaukee Wisconsin a few years back and I came across one guy's
video who he's an African-American guy and he said if you're moving to
Wisconsin and you're black you just go to Milwaukee no place else and he was joking
he's off them's the rules I thought that was pretty funny but in the early days of
settlers 2 the Madison area it was German's Dutch Swiss a lot of Irish and Scandinavian
immigrants these days 73.9 percent of Madison Wisconsin's population is identified as white
number four Lincoln Nebraska yes here we are with Nebraska again and their big city of Lincoln and
when I say big city I'm joking their population is under 300 000. their whole metro area is only 342
000. so for Nebraska that's a big city for California that's a town Lincoln's a pretty
interesting City that just kind of sprung up in the prairie it's not near a major river the
Salt Creek runs through town but it wasn't really close to the Platte River or the Missouri River
I mean it's an hour drive from Lincoln to the Missouri River but back in the day that was a
full day's travel but Lincoln is definitely an interesting place especially when you consider
it's the state capitol if you look at the history of Nebraska when it was the Nebraska
territory Omaha was the capital then and it probably should have stayed the capital when
you consider the rivers and all that other good stuff in the early 20th century Volga
German immigrants from Russia began showing up in this area and that's when it started
to really grow Pro these days eighty percent of Lincoln Nebraska's residents are considered white
number three Scottsdale Arizona again not surprised Scottsdale is just north
of Gilbert Arizona in the Phoenix Metro area and it shares a lot of the same features that
Gilbert shares including elderly people in knee socks golf carts looking for a good
early bird special 80.3 percent of Scottsdale Arizona's residents are identified as white
number two Spokane Washington now whenever I do these videos people always got to bring up
race and stuff like that no oh look there's no crime rate in these cities and they're white
and we're gonna hear all that stuff it's gonna be the comment section below it's
ridiculous but here's Spokane Washington they are extremely white and they have a very high
crime rate there's a reason the locals call this place spokompton the only thing Spokane
Washington and Compton California have in common is a crime rate pretty high one and
no Compton is not nearly as bad as it was in the 1990s it still ain't good if you don't
know where Spokane is it is on the Eastern side of Washington state not too far from
the Idaho border the first people to live in the area were the Spokane tribe which the city
is named after obviously in their language that actually meant Children Of The Sun but
they were living a good life here till explorers showed up and fur trading Outpost was set up and
Spokane grew out of that these days 81.4 percent of spoke hands residents are identified as white
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and Number One Boise Idaho yeah I could see this one easily actually I'm shocked more Idaho cities
aren't on this list they call Canada the great white North and I'm surprised Idaho's never tried
to steal that nickname but Boise Idaho and by the way that's how you pronounce it Boise not
Boise which I did at the beginning who left the comment come on that by the way out of all the
things you could call a place or mispronounce a city calling Boise Boise seems to be the
one that I get the most complaints about that Mississippi Boise was one of the more popular
cities to move to where I'd say about a good decade in recent years it slipped out of the
top ten but it's still going strong I mean it's probably 14th or 15th a lot of people are moving
up there and a lot of Californians have moved up there in the last decade or two and this
drives those people crazy interesting fact about Idaho an odd amount of people don't realize that
Idaho actually touches Nevada and yes Nevada touches Oregon as well that was one of those
Jay Leno questions they used to go go out called jaywalking ask people questions asked a bunch of
people to name the states that border Idaho and they'd always get like Oregon and Washington and
maybe Montana right but they could never get Utah Nevada Wyoming but Boise Idaho is closer to the
Nevada border than it is to the Washington Border Boise is another city town at the time that sprung
up because of the fur trading business these days 82.7 of Boise's population is identified as white
now we were talking about that hispanic white too if you included that it would be almost 90
89.5 but the white only thing 82.7 percent all right that's today's video hope you guys enjoyed
it hope you got some information out of it now go out have a great day be nice to each other