Black-white residential segregation plummeted from 2000 to 2010 in the Kansas City metropolitan area after rising during each of the previous three decades, according to one analysis of Census data.
Kansas City last year was the 36th most segregated metropolitan area among the 100 largest, down from 18th in 2000. "It's as much the fact that city ghettos are being broken up as the fact that suburbs are beginning to integrate," says Kansas City native John Logan, a Brown University sociologist who did the analysis. "It's one of the places that I would describe as a success in the making, after a long history of intense segregation."
