That face, they all agreed, is as white as a fish belly. Real estate agents from Long Beach to Cape May could not name any resort neighborhood that they considered anything other than overwhelmingly Caucasian. Most were reluctant to talk about the racial breakdown of owners and renters, but zip code records show that very few resort homeowners are from areas with large minority populations. Most African Americans aren't affluent enough to buy a property at the Shore. As for religion, Catholics outnumber other denominations in Sea Isle City, Wildwood, North Wildwood, Cape May and other lower Cape May County resorts.
Protestants tend to congregate in Ocean City, founded a century ago as a Methodist retreat.
And Jews are found in greater numbers in Margate than anywhere else along the Shore, followed by Ventnor and Atlantic City. Those findings didn't surprise Paul Leiser, who has sold real estate in Avalon for nearly 10 years. Quite honestly, birds of a feather do flock together. The flocks are from Yardley, the Northeast, Cherry Hill and Haddonfield, and all share at least one common denominator, said Edward Cialella, a leisure sciences professor at Rutgers University's Camden campus. Because so many different types are drawn to the coast, the Shore is dotted with towns that are as distinct as robins from seagulls.