Interesting Statistical Analysis of Segregation

[texas_ex2000]

21 Maps Of Highly Segregated Cities In America

 

[Horn6721]

for some reason it says link not found

 

[texas_ex2000]

Try it now.

 

[NJlonghorn]

Fascinating. To summarize, the study quantifies segregation in 21 major cities. Higher number = more segregation. Separating them by region, with the least segregated regions listed first:South: (avg = 64.5)60.6 Houston60.6 Memphis
63.3 New Orleans
65.2 Birmingham
73.0 Miami

West: (avg = 65.0)
65.0 Los Angeles

Lower Midwest: (avg = 66.0)
59.9 Columbus
63.1 Pittsburgh
64.5 Indianapolis
66.9 Cincinatti
69.2 St. Louis
72.6 Cleveland

Mid-Atlantic: (avg = 67.3)
64.1 Washington D.C.
64.3 Baltimore
73.7 Philly

Northeast: (avg = 74.9)
67.8 Boston
78.0 Newark
79.1 New York

Upper Midwest: (avg = 78.4)
75.9 Chicago
79.6 Milwaukee
79.6 Detroit

To be fair, urban segregation remains high in all regions. But the issue becomes more and more pronounced the farther north you head.

 

[Horn6721]

I wonder which political party controls the most segregated cities?

I wonder at the economic indicators in the highest segregated cities specifically but not limited to unemployment rate?

I bet we might see a pattern.

 

[Larry T. Spider]

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[Seattle Husker]

This isn't a political problem but rather a people problem. Heck, look at any small town in Texas and you'll likely find a similar self-segregation issue where the Hispanics all live one area of town. It was like that in Western Nebraska where the town I lived was 1/3rd Mexican. They all lived in one corner of the town that happened to be "on the other side of the tracks".

I move out of my last house because in the 6yrs I lived there I could see a demonstrative change in neighborhood demographics towards Eastern European/Russian. Their "rough" cultural mannerisms were enough to drive my lilly white *** away. My kids went to an elementary school that was 70% asian. What do you think the test scores were like at that school?

 

[majorwhiteapples]

Maybe a Socio economic issue?

 

[Horns11]

I think it's both socioeconomic and historical. Blacks didn't congregate en masse in cities like Boston, Chicago, and Detroit until the Great Migrations, starting in the 1910s-20s. When they showed up, they were forced to create their own enclaves, or take over existing areas through white flight. Stating that they're "segregated" isn't by minority design... it's because it's how it had to be at the time.

If education and money are set to non-variable, equal levels, you'd see a lot more "unsegregated" areas, but that goes for pretty much any aspect of society, from which restaurants people go to and what type of music they listen to. Because the enclaves were born out of necessity, the education and money levels followed them to those places and breed further segregation.

 

[texas_ex2000]

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[Seattle Husker]

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[texas_ex2000]

Stereotypes...perhaps. False narratives? No.

 

[Seattle Husker]

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[texas_ex2000]

Trust me, as a minority...a very hispanic ethnic minority, any bigotry in Houston, which frankly was few and far between growing up (I recall precisely of only one time of an idiot kid spitting out some ridiculous slur...I don't hold it against him though...the kid I'm sure had a double digit IQ), doesn't compare to my experiences of working and living in New York City and New England. The bigotry up north is bad enough...names I have never heard of (and I was a sailor), but the patronizing, the assumptions, the insinuations...the racial/class faux elitism are 100x more insidious.

An enlisted army man you say? I wish I was so lucky. I was a naval officer, you would think yankees would show some hospitality. Maybe if I looked like JFK.

 

[Mr. Deez]

texas_ex2000,

I thought the same thing you did. The most segregated areas are also some of the most politically correct in the country and packed with liberal white people who smugly look down upon southerners as people with backward racial views. They consider themselves enlightened on race, but when it comes to their own lives and families, they get as far away from blacks and other ethnic minorities as possible.

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[texas_ex2000]

To be fair Seattle, from my experience traveling there (although I've never lived there), I don't think the same of the major cities in your neck of the woods on the West Coast. Again, that's not to say there aren't racial tensions or segregation, as said before all major cities deal with segregation, e.g. Beverly Hills vs Compton, San Francisco vs Oakland. There have been huge race riots over there. But, it's not the same vibe.

Maybe it's just a West Coast thing, and people are more laid back.

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[Larry T. Spider]

The two most racist places I have ever been are nothing alike. Boston and rural Louisiana. I chalk it up to "there are idiots everywhere".

 

[texas_ex2000]

The difference is, Bostonians have real wealth and influence in society, business, and politics.

Folks in rural Louisiana have influence over...football recruiting.

 

[majorwhiteapples]

The reason in Houston is the lack of zoning. Zoning is inherently racist but we won't get into that right now......

I have lived in the Mid-West, Texas, West and Louisiana, by far the most racist city or metropolitan area has been Chicago, hands down.

Now, Mexicans, Africans, Caucasions are different in each place as well......