[edluva]

houston's claim on "diversity" rests on the census' (lack of) resolution of ethnity/race into basically four groups: hispanic, white, black and asian. any half-intelligent person could easily see how this claim could be called into question.

any attempt to call this a final or "alternative yet equally legitimate" measure of diversity is clearly self-delusional boosterism, or a simple lack of intelligence, and deserves no merit. even the toronto boosters (who have a far more legitimate claim than houston vs ny/la/dc/sf, etc) were able to understand this.