Black Segregation In US Drops To Lowest In Century

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Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON December 14, 2010, 07:06 pm ET

America's neighborhoods took large strides toward racial integration in the last decade as blacks and whites chose to live near each other at the highest levels in a century.

Still, segregation in many parts of the U.S. persisted, with Hispanics in particular turning away from whites.

A broad range of 2009 census data released Tuesday also found a mixed economic picture, with the poverty rate swinging wildly among counties from 4 percent to more than 40 percent as the nation grappled with a housing boom and bust. Just three U.S. localities reported median household income of more than $100,000, down from seven in 2000.

Segregation among blacks and whites increased in one-fourth of the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas, compared to nearly one-half for Hispanics.

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The figures come from previous censuses and the 2009 American Community Survey, which samples 3 million households. For places with fewer than 20,000 people, the ACS figures from 2005-2009 were averaged to help compensate for otherwise large margins of error.

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The New York Times has another story about the ACS, "Region Is Reshaped as Minorities Go to Suburbs", but that is centred around New York City, so I did a little Googling and found this nationally-oriented AP report instead.

[mucifer]

1. Chicago is still very segregated.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

3. Is it by mutual choice or illegal activitiy?

[No Elephants]

4. My guess: a combination of finances and subtle illegal activity.

I once asked a realtor to show me a property in San Antonio, TX I had seen online. You wouldn't believe how many broad hints I got that I would not be happy in that neighborhood. And the more I refused to take the hint, the less subtle he got.

That realtor's issue was Mexican Americans, but I have no doubt various realtors drop different inds of hints. For example, a gay acquaintance got a lot of resistance from a realtor because the place in Hoboken, N.J. he wanted to see was in a "family" neighborhood.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

7. I remember an opinion piece in the Washington Post that said blacks had a duty not to sell to whites

In DC neighborhoods. Something about maintaining the existing culture. May have been 15 years ago by now.


There is significant self segregation these days...and its not just by whites

[JanMichael]

2. Until the block level data comes out that separates 2000 from 2010 this is useless.

The 2009 data is not block level but the 2010 Census data is due out soon. Tract and municipal data is wildly inaccurate and misleading however block data is literally "who lives next to who". It also cancels out sprawl distortions; to a point.

Let's make broad based proclamations of desegregation achievements based on real data please. I guess I hate the title of the article which then sort of says what I said above but in nicer tones.

[No Elephants]

5. Leave it to AP headline writers: "Black segregation"

[goforit]

6. The "White Man" scares the shit out of other races.

Thanks to the racist Republicans.

[robcon]

8. This is good news.

I've noticed this myself in NY's suburbs.

[muntrv]

9. Metro Detroit still remains segregated.

[GearHeadTheStalker]

10. RE: Black Segregation In US Drops To Lowest In Century

This shows we are winning. Keep voting and supporting Progressives and we will eventually make things right in this country.