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11. Re: the Mariners crowd

Tue Aug 25, 2015, 12:55 PM

Aug 2015

I'm not disputing the problems with race segregation in Seattle, etc., but one factor in the very white crowds at events like Mariners games is that according to the 2010 census, Seattle's black population is less than 8 percent. (I don't know about the surrounding suburbs, though.)

http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/cityplanning/populationdemographics/aboutseattle/raceethnicity/default.htm

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