[asiachick]

I don't know what criteria is being used to claim Texas is American's most diverse city but simple checking the census data shows that is provably false.

ALSO, WTF is up with the whole mixing in Hispanic in such a strange way in the census? Seems super fishy like someone wanted to paint a certain kind of picture but if they just plainly list ethnicities they don't get to make the story they want to tell.

[SpicyLemonZest]

It’s handled that way because many Hispanic people don’t consider “Hispanic” to be a race. That is to say, Afro-Latinos and White Hispanic people often don’t consider ourselves multiracial; my racial heritage is independent of the fact that my ancestors happened to be located in Mexico at one point.

[lupire]

What's a racial heritage though? Appalachians don't have the same racial heritage as more recent family immigrants from Russia or Ireland, but all are Caucasian, and Black descendants of slaves don't have the same racial heritage as Somali or Kenyan immigrants.

[whimsicalism]

The DC area, for instance, seems obviously more diverse than Houston.

[kthejoker2]

"Obviously" in what way? Houston's population is 25% foreign born, with an almost even 4-way split between Black, Asian, Hispanic, and White residents.

We're also more socioeconomically balanced and diverse.

https://wallethub.com/edu/most-diverse-cities/12690#detailed

[jcranmer]

I grew up in the VA suburbs of DC, and one of the obvious ways that you can tell the diversity was in the schools. The schools had signs telling all visitors to report to the main office, and (owing to the numbers of immigrants for whom English proficiency wasn't strong) repeated this message not only in English but Spanish... and Arabic (or Farsi, I can't distinguish the two), Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Tagalog.

[lupire]

Is 90% English speaking plus 10% split among 10 languages more or less diverse than 25% plus 75% split among 3?

[letitbeirie]

There's a line-drawing issue here - the DC Metro Area is a lot more diverse than Washington DC proper.

On the page you linked, DC suburbs are listed under:

- Most educational-attinment diversity (#1 & #2)

- Most racial & ethnic diversity (#3 & #5)

- Most birthplace diversity (#1)