An article in this week's Economist discusses a (census) block by
(census) block study of racial segregation in America. The old
studies, the often quoted (they say) Taeuber study published in the
1960's in particular, measured total blacks and total whites in a city
and gave ratios. Quoting the article ("Take It Block by Block"):The new study focuses on black-white integration, not segregation. ... Their conclusion that most of America remains racially segregated--almost a third of blacks and more than half of whites live in blocks whose inhabitants are at least 90% of their own race--is not surprising. But their assessment of black-white integration in specific places is startling. Metropolitan areas such as St Louis, Birmingham, Philadelphia and Indianapolis, which rank near the bottom on the old indices, come out in the top third on a block-by-block ranking. Others previously praised as less segregated, such as Albuquerque, Honolulu and Orange County, drop to near the bottom, partly because they have relatively few blacks. Note that Hispanics are now more numerous than Blacks in the U.S., but that this is very recent, and so likely the reason that the study focused on black and white only (for comparison with the 1960's study). -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
