This is the white and fluffy perfect community of Anthem, Arizona. Not just any community, this is a Del Webb 5,860 acre master-(race) planned village for whites. Anthem is not advertised as a white community, nor may there be overt racism at work to keep minorities from this place, but a visit to the sub-communities called Laurel, Joshua, Willow, and Jubilation with street names of Cartier Court, Steinbeck Drive, Hemingway Drive, and the Outerbanks Drive are strangely generic and lacking color.

Anthem is devoid of Arizona’s cultural heritage as an ancient home to Native Americans and a long-time home for Hispanics. You will be hard-pressed to find minorities here. The local McDonald’s was staffed with 100% white people, as was the Safeway grocery store. The Mexicans I ran into do not live in Anthem; they work construction or gardening or even the night shift at McDonald’s, but they all live in Phoenix.

This corporatized version of the American community is an abomination unless, of course, you are looking for that perfect all-white place to settle down.