Posted on 04/01/2011 4:53:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Racial segregation has been declining since the 1970s but it clearly exists.
For example, the average black person lives in a neighborhood that is 45 percent black. Without segregation, his neighborhood would be only 13 percent black.
The slow decline of segregation was revealed in 2010 census data and analysis by professors at Brown and Florida State University.
John Logan and Brian Stults created a dissimilarity index, which identifies the percentage of one group that would have to move to a different neighborhood to eliminate segregation -- think busing.
A score above 60 on the dissimilarity index is considered very high segregation. 22 metropolitan areas crossed this threshold.
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According to the map, Central Park has a large black population.
Of the 22 in the list, 5 are in the states of the old Confederacy; 17 are not.
The “forward button” does not show up in dome firefox browser setups.
Here, I’ll do the heavy lifting for you:
#22 Houston, Texas
#21 Salinas, Calif.
#20 Washington D.C.
#19 Boston, Mass.
#18 New York
#17 Los Angeles
#16 Memphis, Tenn.
#15 Pittsburgh, Pa.
#14 New Orleans
#13 Miami, Fla.
#12 Baltimore, Md.
#11 Indianapolis, Ind.
#10 Los Angeles
#9 Birmingham, Ala.
#8 Cincinnati, Ohio
#7 Philadelphia, Pa.
#6 St. Louis, Mo.
#5 Cleveland, Ohio
#4 Detroit
#3 Chicago
#2 New York City, N.Y.
#1 Milwaukee, Wisc.
Milwaukee has had this designation for as long as I can remember.
I clicked on the link. No cites. After clicking on a second, “click on this link to see the cities” I saw: Houston. Ha Ha. Very Funny. You April Fooled me.
The Voting Rights Act actually encourages segregation by trying to set up more minority-majority districts. If minorities are not clustered together, then it is impossible to create a minority-majority district.
I made someone speechless once.
I told him I thought I was a racist, because I was a white man, and had ever only gone out with white women. And I had married a white woman.
And I observed that he too was white, and his wife was white, and asked him about that fact. He had been talking up the liberal line about segregation and schools and related issues. But I guess he was caught flat footed at my self-admission to practicing discrimination in my socializing and eventually marrying.
Have to kick a whole lotta ‘em outta basketball and football, where they are egregiously overrepresented! Calling Racial Justice Police!!!
RE: I saw: Houston. Ha Ha. Very Funny. You April Fooled me.
What’s wrong with your browser? Houston is at Number 22. Did you continue clicking the top right button on the page to page through the other cities?
The principle is called freedom of association.
The damn social engineers won’t leave it alone.
LA is so racist, it got listed twice!
Milwaukee is Number 1! How many of these cities are run by Democrats?
New York is on the list two times, once for Whites/Hispanics and the other for Whites/Blacks.
This is a crock of crap.
Segregation was ended decades ago when the last laws were voided by the '64 Civil Rights act and Supreme Court decisions which killed things like deed restrictions.
What they are calling "segregation" is merely de facto segregation, due to personal choices and not much more. You can't even talk about "historical discrimination" as segregation because there is no real estate operation in the country that would imagine telling someone qualified to buy that they couldn't. Quite the contrary, which is what got us into the foreclosure nightmare.
This is all BS being pushed right now probably by Holder and his buddies at NAACP etc who are trying to do something unprecedented: suing entire cities for being "too white" and demanding that the city either pay non-whites to live there until some formula is met, or simply dissolving their city charter and redrawing borders to incorporate possible existing non-white areas.
It is utterly beyond ludicrous. So if Pacific Heights, the most expensive part of San Francisco, is "too white", they have to what - donate every third mansion to the dark skinned individual of the government's choosing?
This is a SCAM. Nothing but intentional property theft on a grand scale.
When I went to the site, I clicked on the button, “click here to see the cities”, and there was one city, Houston. That’s what I saw.
Not really very revealing, is it
I would not want to live in any of those places anyway.
Lucky for me.
Another study with an agenda. New Orleans is one of the most integrated cities in the U.S. Millionaires literally live cheek by jowl with with the poorest of the black population. Many fabulously wealthy homes reside only a block away from the projects. Given that the study is completely wrong re. N.O., the entire study is probably suspect too.
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