This is the fourth post in a series considering related local topics of cultures & communications within the city.
Take a look at impartial census data for Whitewater, from the federal government (using American Community Survey population estimates for 2016 now available, and otherwise 2015 measurements).
Whitewater’s is a population that’s relatively young (where student-aged residents significanty outnumber non-student adults aged 25-64), and with a significant Latino community (almost certainly larger by percentage among the K-12 population than it is among older age groups).
These disparate groups most surely don’t have the same outlook. Pretending that there’s one, common outlook is at best mistaken, at worst arrogant. Seeing the city through the eyes of a few, without a dispassionate review of the city’s demographics, isn’t a reasoned outlook.
It’s nothing more than aged beholders’ nostalgia.
Data follow —
Previously: Parts 1 (introductory assumptions), 2 (population), and 3 (oasis).
Tomorrow: Part 5.