(Texas Monthly) What Nobody Says About Austin: Is Austin the state’s most segregated city?

[Bennyboy]

9. Well it is apt I think

The way white folks "go to" Minority districts to buy ethnic foods and eat authentic but do not socialize or cross paths in any other way. And it is something I am guilty of. I love going down to Franklin Blvd and eating at all the Mexican places or shopping a that incredible Asian market on the corner of Franklin and 12th avenue. 12th avenue is the dividing line between the 'hood and Curtis Park, where the white folk live, closer to downtown. Everything south of there is mostly minorities.

As someone who has worked in the subdivisions of Northern California, one thing I notice is that if you are a minority in the burbs, you pretty much have to give up your culture. There are no ethnic nothings, except for eastern Europeans and they have groceries and a firm grip on their culture. of course the kids are getting away from that and are very Americanized now, but the old guard still holds that kind of values and culture.