Cities and Educated Elites

I've been a critic of Florida's "creative cities" theory for four years, but he's definitely onto something here. There is a concentration of the highly educated in certain cities. The problem with his Atlantic article statistics is that he's not breaking out non-Hispanic white population, where this is most clearly visible. The concentration of well-educated younger whites in certain cities then attracts in a very poorly educated class of Hispanic immigrants to service them, thus diluting the effects when looking at the overall populations.

I agree with Sailer. Flordia just might be on to something. If you think for a sec, Flordia just might make a little sense. The industry market has been and is growing, which does draw immigrants and farmer into industrial area. But on the same token families desire the suburbs as opposed to centrally located in cites. I can see why Kling distrusts media stars in social science, because I tend not to distrust them period. But here in my opinion Flordia makes a plausible hypothesis, but not a good foundation for building a Strong conclusion, well put Kling!