@Alex12  
But Twilight already established they were rare in central Equestria. There were a few visiting crystal ponies in Canterlot several months after it appeared, but not a single griffon in Cloudsdale since Gilda was, oddly, sent to a pegasi flight camp there. Not a single one at the best flyers competition.
 
And while its not canon, IDW did say the Griffon Empire is semi-canon.

@The Twelfth Doctor Whoof  
Again: gryphons can fly and cloudwalk too.

@The Twelfth Doctor Whoof  
It’s only that way out of necessity. Cloudsdale’s origin was simply as a semi-self-sufficient weather factory, complete with accommodations for workers. Over time, more and more of Equestria’s weather production was outsourced to Cloudsdale, and out of necessity it grew in size. Eventually, it stopped counting as a factory with an apartment complex attached and became the city it’s known as today. Still, it’s origin as a weather factory continues to shine through to this day.

Rewatching “Sweet & Elite”, I noticed that there are a fair number of Earth-pony nobility. It’s my personal headcanon that Equestria is still largely segregated despite Celestia’s best efforts to fix the problem. Ponyville is the rare exception. It has an Earth-pony majority, but they don’t really have anything against the Unicorn & Pegasus minorities living there, at least not anymore (except for Winter Wrap-Up, which is functionally anti-Unicorn).
 
Of course the most racist city by far is Cloudsdale. Why wouldn’t it be? It’s 100% Pegasus.

@WM-R  
Still, they clearly get lots of tourists, judging by their reactions, or lack thereof rather.

@Mayojar77
 
I was under the impression the joke was he completely missed the point of why there are only Pegasi in Cloudsdale.

@WM-R  
And I was explaining why it made no sense.

@Mayojar77
 
I…I think Cyborg_pony was joking.

This actually makes you wonder how unusual Ponyville is for being an Earth pony village with a sizable Unicorn and Pegasus population. Do ponies still practice segregation? In Cloudsdale they’d have to, but how about places like Canterlot or Manehatten?

@Cyborg_pony  
Cloudsdale is made of clouds. Earth Ponies and Unicorns simply can’t live there.  
Also, did you not notice the fact that nobody there questioned the presence of two of each of the remaining races just walking into their places of business until something fucked up horribly? That kinda implies that they get a lot of tourists already.

@Cyborg_pony  
It’s probably got gryphons too.

What about Cloudsdale? It’s nothing but Pegasi. Racists.

@ExistenceNull  
Yep….There was that one Earth pony whose only use was cleaning the windows.

Nah, they’re not racist, it’s just that a good chunk of them are snobs.

True, eighty nine percent of the population is unicorn (excuse my nonexistent grammar) so their bound to be to some degree.

…and mules like Rarity!

Nah, they’re all about class up there.