What is the state of segregation in the nations metropolitan areas today?
The U.S. population is more racially and ethnically diverse than ever before. Yet for the most part, America’s neighborhoods remain highly segregated. The only areas that have become more integrated since 1970 are cities with small minority populations. * On the whole, segregation is highest in the major metropolitan areas of the Midwest and Northeast and lower in the West and South. * The 2000 census shows that overall the nation’s largest cities have lost large numbers of white residents to suburban and outlying areas. The urban populace is becoming increasingly Latino and Asian, with a slight increase in Black residents. * According to the Lewis Mumford Center at the University of Albany, segregation has increased in almost every large suburban area from 1990 to 2000. * Across the nation, four out of five whites live outside of the cities and 86 percent of whites live in neighborhoods where minorities make up less than 1 percent of the population. In contrast, 70 percent of Blacks a
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