- New Hampshire, 94 Percent White, Asks: How Do You Diversify a Whole State?
- New Hampshire — which is 94 percent white
- New Hampshire’s neighbors, Vermont and Maine, are 95 percent white
- New England collectively the whitest region in a nation where white residents make up just over 60 percent of the population
- In Manchester, for example, the white population has dropped to 82 percent, down from 98 percent in 1980.
- Mostly, though, Northern New England is nearly all white.
In only 1 paragraph of this article does it even touch on the reasons for NH's concerns:
“We have true work force needs,” said Loretta Brady, a psychology professor at St. Anselm College, who has worked with the Manchester Chamber of Commerce on matters of diversity and participated in Thursday’s conference.
“We have 2.7 percent unemployment, an opioid crisis that has significantly impacted employability and the reality of an aging population that will absolutely require direct service care at some point,” said Ms. Brady. “And we don’t have a pipeline of talent that’s going to support that.”
Note that none of those are problems with diversity. They're problems of an aging population, slow population growth, drug addiction, and a lack of incubator infrastructure. Perhaps if they touched on that and focused on the need to bring in youth, and therefore a much more diverse cross-section of the population than currently exists in NE to offset the aforementioned issues it would have been a legit article and legit reflection of the meeting's purpose. But, no. They focused almost the entire article on how oppressively white NH is.