Multiculturalism in SF

That's pretty much what I figured. Hispanic and black cultures in particular tend to be threat-aware and folklore-fluent, at least until you get into the assimilated upper class, particularly in comparison to a white mainstream. There were a few people of color represented among allies and vampires, but for the most part, it looks like everyone with a brain scrammed out of town.

At first I just looked at that and laughed.

Then I thought ... way the hell too many people, most of them white people, most of them douchebags, who are obsessed with money and politics, and who are paranoid about being invaded.

Disturbingly the main difference is that global warming summer is coming, rather than winter.

I really did not need that parallel wriggling around through my brain.

I think if I were casting, my default would be "mixed" unless I had a specific reason not to -- like matching a particular historic culture. Then I'd look for people of that ethnic group or something like it, and I'd probably check to see what the mix at the time would have been, if known. But doing any single culture would make me want to do something different for the next piece.

It would be an interesting way to get to know most of the non-white actors fairly quickly -- there aren't enough roles written for characters of color, and many casters favor white folks for extras. So I suspect that any halfway-decent company that was consistently diverse about casting would be passed around rather fast.