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Why don't black and white Americans live together?

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Re: Why don't black and white Americans live together?

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The maps led me to wondering what a similar diagram of cities in the UK would look like, and I found a map of England and Wales with dots coloured by race.

It's much more mixed. Where black/white/asian areas still exist the boundaries tend to be pretty blurred.

http://projects.andrewwhitby.com/uk-ethnicity-map/

Re: Why don't black and white Americans live together?

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For those who don't live here I'd say a majority of the places, at least here on the east coast, don't follow this trend. This definitely isn't the case where I grew up, in New Jersey, and is absolutely incorrect for New York City.

I'd hope that this article would have done a better job in explaining that this isn't the rule but that these are a few exceptions to such.

Re: Why don't black and white Americans live together?

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post #4

For those who don't live here I'd say a majority of the places, at least here on the east coast, don't follow this trend. This definitely isn't the case where I grew up, in New Jersey, and is absolutely incorrect for New York City. I'd hope that this article would have done a better job in explaining that this isn't the rule but that these are a few exceptions to such.

I dunno man, the racial makeup in neighborhoods in NYC changes fast, like cross the street fast: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/08/us/census-race...

Re: Why don't black and white Americans live together?

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This was my public policy research area for about a decade. In my mind this remains one of the best treatments of the topic:

American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass - Massey and Denton

https://www.amazon.com/American-Apartheid-Segregation-Making...

Re: Why don't black and white Americans live together?

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post #4

For those who don't live here I'd say a majority of the places, at least here on the east coast, don't follow this trend. This definitely isn't the case where I grew up, in New Jersey, and is absolutely incorrect for New York City. I'd hope that this article would have done a better job in explaining that this isn't the rule but that these are a few exceptions to such.

> This definitely isn't the case where I grew up, in New Jersey, and is absolutely incorrect for New York City.

It's not something that's nearly as sharply defined in NYC, but there's definitely some racial separation by neighborhood if you look at statistical maps on the subject.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/27/map-segregation-ame...

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1321377/original.jpg

Re: Why don't black and white Americans live together?

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post #4

For those who don't live here I'd say a majority of the places, at least here on the east coast, don't follow this trend. This definitely isn't the case where I grew up, in New Jersey, and is absolutely incorrect for New York City. I'd hope that this article would have done a better job in explaining that this isn't the rule but that these are a few exceptions to such.

NYC is ranked as the second most segregated city in the country.

Just because we all ride the subway together doesn't mean we live together:

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2015/12/08/census-...

Re: Why don't black and white Americans live together?

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post #4

For those who don't live here I'd say a majority of the places, at least here on the east coast, don't follow this trend. This definitely isn't the case where I grew up, in New Jersey, and is absolutely incorrect for New York City. I'd hope that this article would have done a better job in explaining that this isn't the rule but that these are a few exceptions to such.

You kiddin'? NYC is a massively segregated city, essentially whole neighborhoods are defined by race.
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