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Residentially segregated neighborhoods, in combination with school zone gerrymandering, leads to racial/ethnic segregation in schools. Studies have found that schools tend to be equally or more segregated than their surrounding neighborhoods, further exacerbating patterns of residential segregation and racial inequality. [40]
A randomly generated board containing segregated squares and triangles. The article is an interactive blog post, "part story and part game". [1] [2] It has a model consisting of a society of blue squares and yellow triangles, presented in a grid. [3] [4] At the top of the article, a crowd of triangles and squares are wiggling. [5]
In 2019, 169 out of 209 metropolitan regions in the U.S. were more segregated than in 1990, a new analysis finds The U.S. Is Increasingly Diverse, So Why Is Segregation Getting Worse?
Residential segregation persists for a variety of reasons. Segregated neighborhoods may be reinforced by the practice of "steering" by real estate agents. This occurs when a real estate agent makes assumptions about where their client might like to live based on the color of their skin. [133]
Linda Blackford: In Lexington, a series of serendipitous events will shine a new spotlight on Lexington’s history of housing segregation for the first time.
The city’s most segregated neighborhoods include Mount Lookout, Mount Adams and Hyde Park, where more than 85% of the population is white, and Bond Hill and South Cumminsville, where more than ...
Results from the last few censuses suggest that more inner-ring suburbs around cities also are becoming home to racial minorities as their populations grow and put pressure on the small neighborhoods that they are confined to. As of 2017, most residents of the United States live in "radicalized and economically segregated neighborhoods". [38 ...
[15] [16] More generally, some historians suggest that white flight occurred in response to population pressures, both from the large migration of blacks from the rural Southern United States to urban cities of the Northern United States and the Western United States in the Great Migration and the waves of new immigrants from around the world. [17]