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.
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.