King County is the Whitest "Big"County in the Country

This fact is reported by the Seattle Times.  I note that this is for the county and not the city but it's a trend to note.

What might this mean - if anything - for public education.

Comments

Anonymous said…
From Seattle Times: King County is the whitest of the nation’s 20 most-populous counties [bold added]." This does not mean it is the whitest county in the country.

nitpicker
7/5/15, 2:19 PM
Anonymous said…
Good job Nitpicker in reading the not so fine print.

King County is certainly not even the whitest county in WA State.

-- Dan Dempsey

7/5/15, 2:32 PM
Anonymous said…
Thanks for the clarification, nitpicker. I knew there was no way the post could be correct given how white the counties in Utah are.

CT
7/5/15, 2:39 PM
Melissa Westbrook said…
Yes, you would need to go read the article in the Times. Sometimes I do wonder why I bother.
7/5/15, 3:10 PM
seattle citizen said…
Yes, Melissa, I got that. The whitest "big" county, and of course that means big in population, not some tiny county in Wyoming.....
7/5/15, 3:33 PM
Andrea Leigh Ptak said…
I got the gist immediately. Don't feed the trolls. You bother because you know we appreciate you.
7/5/15, 5:11 PM
Anonymous said…
"whitest big county", high-five.

-NNNCr
7/5/15, 5:23 PM
Anonymous said…
I don't give the Times any more traffic than I have to. They just suck too much to deserve an increase in web traffic, even if they are the only "newspaper" left in Seattle.

CT
7/5/15, 6:02 PM
Anonymous said…
CT,

On many issues The Stranger is the superior Seattle newspaper.

-- Dan Dempsey
7/5/15, 8:23 PM
Anonymous said…
Totally agree, Dan!
Though even they have gone downhill with the departure of many good writers.

CT
7/6/15, 11:42 AM
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