Fantasyland. (Census).
When the Walt Disney Noun 1. Walt Disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966)
Disney, Walter Elias Disney Company built the town of Celebration, Fla.,
from scratch seven years ago, it promised to make it a home for
diversity. That has been a failure, conceded con·cede
v. con·ced·ed, con·ced·ing, con·cedes
v.tr.
1. To acknowledge, often reluctantly, as being true, just, or proper; admit. See Synonyms at acknowledge.
2. even by Disney officials.
The town has proved hard to socially engineer, despite housing
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, mixed-income neighborhoods, and minority sales people. Census
figures show the 2,376-resident suburb suburb, a community in an outlying section of a city or, more commonly, a nearby, politically separate municipality with social and economic ties to the central city. In the 20th cent. near Disney World is 88 percent
white, 1 percent black, and 7 percent Hispanic, in a county whose
respective percentages are 59, 6, and 29. Experts say Celebration is an
example of a national trend away from suburban integration, toward
people living next to others who look like themselves.
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