Study finds residential segregation is far from fading away - baltimoresun.com: Legally enforced segregation might have ended decades ago, but a new study finds that white families tend to move to white neighborhoods and black families tend to move to black neighborhoods, even as the country's racial diversity keeps expanding.
The finding is part of a study for the American Sociological Review, the flagship journal of the American Sociological Association, called “Neighborhood Diversity, Metropolitan Constraints, and Household Migration.” Researchers tracked data on where 44,808 black families and 57,415 white families moved between 1977 and 2005.
It's a trend the Baltimore area knows well. This study using 2010 Census data shows that the Baltimore region had the 16th highest amount of black-white residential segregation among metro areas with large black populations. And this 2001 paper bemoans similar patterns locally.
