Posted on 05/30/2019 1:11:00 PM PDT by grundle
The Bay Area was more racially segregated in 2010 than it was 40 years prior, a UC Berkeley paper published Tuesday found.
Segregation in the Bay Area persisted and, in some cases, grew since 1970. Seven of the region’s nine counties had more segregation in 2010 than they did in 1970. The only two that saw declines — San Francisco and Alameda counties — remain classified as “high” segregation places.
Meanwhile, Marin, Santa Clara, Sonoma and Napa counties had relatively large increases in segregation.
That’s according to a brief from researchers at UC Berkeley’s Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society — the third in a five-part series.
ut the story of where people live in relation to each other isn’t uniform across racial groups. While black residents became less segregated from white and Latino peers, for instance, Asians and Latinos both became more segregated from whites.
Black-white segregation remains the highest, even though it’s on the decline, said authors Stephen Menendian and Samir Gambhir.
One of the measures the authors used to gauge segregation is the “dissimilarity index,” which indicates the proportion of people in a racial group who would have to move for an area to become fully integrated. A score of 0 means an area is fully integrated.
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The United States scored a 59 in the black-white dissimilarity index, meaning that 59 percent of white or black people across the country would have to move to reach full integration, according to the paper, which used Census data going back to 1970.
In the Bay Area, the largest decline in dissimilarity scores was that of Latinos and African Americans — from 71 in 1970 to 45 in 2010.
A different study from UC Berkeley researchers found that soaring housing prices have pushed low-income minorities to the outer edges of the Bay Area and beyond.
Land use, zoning and housing policies, in addition to discrimination, have stratified the region by race and class, said Menendian, the lead author.
“It’s very unlikely that we will solve racial inequality in a society or region that’s racially segregated,” he said. “Take health outcomes: They are a product of where people live.”
The paper said that while there are fewer areas comprising one race — all-white and all-black neighborhoods, for instance — “the typical member of a racial group still resides in a demographically isolated” area.
Someone forgot to tell this idiot that there are probably more Indians and Chinese living in Silicon Valley than Whites.
Blacks can’t afford to live there unless they make 250k/year
Now, -the main difference is evident by the ever increasing area depicted by the daily published POO-POO map.
Many blacks have left for friendlier and more affordable climes, as are more and more of the whites. Visit the Bay Area and you’ll find suburbs that are now over 30 percent people from Communist China, some now approaching or over 50%
not much diversity that, unless you count the 300 different Chinese national groups as diversity ...(that no American knows about anyway)
This article wouldn’t surprise me, I guess.
Marin County has always struck me (from afar) as NIMBY-land.
Family, income, job and home more than “skin color” or ethnicity are driving factors in where most people live. If people can get the jobs, income and home they want living near where other family members live, they will. To the extent that that works out, it tends to keep those of a similar demographic living nearer more than further from each other. Call it “segregation” if you want, or call it “feeling comfortable” with folks you are familiar with. Is that “racist”? No.
You have no obligation to meet a utopian statistic of “diversity”.
The true goal of that reach for “diversity” is to gradually ELIMINATE ALL diversity, until there are no differences in appearence or values, just one mono-culture of uniformity and sameness.
Like everywhere else this is all about income.
A studio apartment in Palo Alto goes for $3,500 per month.
Minimum.
Highest in the nation.
Does it include roof & windows?
The street poppers seem well integrated.
Palo Alto more expensive than SF? Hard to believe.
The author is actually correct. A lot of this had to do with community and housing association bylaws that forbid selling to non-caucasians outside of San Francisco and Oakland. After the civil rights law changes in the 1960s, minorities began moving into areas that still had these bylaws in place, which were now ignored. Many of those bylaws still existed into the 1970s before they were removed. Daly City's Westlake neighborhood (borders San Francisco) still had the bylaws forbidding non-whites in the 1970s, when asians began moving into the area. Now it's mostly Filipino.
East Palo Alto is the poor side with million-dollar homes, the west side Palo Alto is ritzy and expensive with very multi-million-dollar homes.
A really invalid study unless the authors meant to point out that as cities become more liberal, they became more segregated
“Meanwhile, Marin, Santa Clara, Sonoma and Napa counties had relatively large increases in segregation.”
40 years ago Marin County was too expensive for middle income and basic minorities to buy a home or rent. It is worse now.
Santa Clara aka Sillycon valley in the past 2 decades has become one of the most expensive places in California to buy or rent a home. Again most middle class/average minority families could not afford to live there.
Sonoma and Napa have been playing catch up with Marin and the Valley, and in the past two years they have caught up, in housing costs.
According to this flawed study, those four counties are more segregated. If minorities can’t afford to move into those 4 counties due to weekly increasing housing costs:
That is not segregation! That is supply and demand.
What the hell this race even mean anymore ?
Libs just need to stick it where the sun don’t shine
I live in Fairfax the heart of Marin County
It’s very very white yes
Am I famous saying is “hey! white people are diverse too! “
I worked in Santa Clara from ‘87 to ‘97. Even then, there were no blacks to be seen. But if you watched a major road, for every 8 cars, you’d see at least one convertible.
According the Wikipedia, the African-American percentage of the population of the city of San Francisco is less than half what it was in 1970.
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