Sorting Out The Census: We're still separate and unequal.: "In a report that surprised the nation, Logan has shown that even though the U.S. population grew far more racially and ethnically diverse between 1990 and 2000, we are still as segregated a nation today as we've ever been. The majority of Americans, Logan found, are living in neighborhoods that continue to separate whites from blacks, Latinos and people of Asian descent. In fact, the same color barrier that has dominated urban communities for decades has now spread to our fast-growing suburbs, where people of color tend to congregate in neighborhoods and housing developments apart from whites."
Other findings:
The average white person lives in a community nearly 83 percent white and 7 percent black, while the average black lives in a community that is only 33 percent white and 54 percent black.
>>> Middle-class blacks are more likely to live in or near areas of poverty than are middle-class whites of equal income. In Los Angeles, Chicago and New York City, for example, the typical African American lives in a community where the income level is about 30 percent lower, and where the crime rate is 30 percent higher, than it is in communities occupied by whites of the same income level.
>>> White couples without children are more likely to live in integrated neighborhoods than are whites with children, reflecting the departure of white families from urban areas into the suburbs, often in pursuit of better schools and less crime.
>>> The average child in metropolitan America lives in an increasingly segregated neighborhood where their own racial group dominates, and where they encounter relatively few children of other backgrounds. As neighborhoods are segregated, so too are schools, clubs, sports teams and other organizations and social circles.
