The Bismarck Tribune has an editorial today bemoaning the lack of ethnic diversity in North Dakota.  Forget that the state is mostly made up of descendants of immigrants from Germany, Scandinavia and Russia.  All of those people are white, and the Tribune wants more people of color.

Now, diversity is just fine with me.  I’d welcome any blacks or Hispanics or Asians or any other ethnic demographics to my home state.  It’s fine by me.  But what irks me are demands that we seek out diversity.  Not because I have a problem with diversity, but rather because saying that we need diversity implies that there’s something wrong without state’s society as is.

If blacks and Asians and Hispanics and everyone else who is considered a minority want to come to North Dakota to live that’s fantastic.  But if they don’t want to come here to live, why is that necessarily a bad thing?

Diversity for no other reason than diversity’s sake is a pretty stupid idea.