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How are they deciding the criteria here? When I think of segregated cities New York does not come to mind.
Perhaps it's because you are making the mistake that most people do in thinking that multicultural and integrated are synonymous. In a lot of cases they are not and such is the case in New York City. It is America's most diverse city/metro and I can not think of one group of people from the world that isn't well represented there. However, when it comes to living patterns, it shows very clearly on the map in the OP that each ethnic group pretty much stick to their neighborhoods and/or cities and when it comes to the suburbs (with the exception of Northern New Jersey) they are all pretty much all White while the bulk of non-whites in Metro New York City live in the 5 boroughs (also separated from each other and whites).
I think it is odd though they would rank NYC as #2 while Detroit and Cleveland rank far lower.
Having lived in DC and NYC, I dont know how anybody can say that DC is more integrated than NYC. To me, it seemed like white people live on one side of the river and black people on the other. I never saw DC as really an integrated city and Ive never thought of NYC as being segregated.
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Having lived in DC and NYC, I dont know how anybody can say that DC is more integrated than NYC. To me, it seemed like white people live on one side of the river and black people on the other. I never saw DC as really an integrated city and Ive never thought of NYC as being segregated.
Guess I was wrong, I only lived in the two cities
I think in the past that was more true. In the last two decades though, the District itself has seen a tremendous amount of gentrification by whites.
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It's funny that with the exception of NY and Chicago, it's basically just black and white...then Los Angeles is just a gigantic yellow blob.
I'd love to try to get the maps on some other cities...hopefully we can find some!
No. NY and LA are the exceptions. LA especially looks fairly integrated. Both NY and LA have huge majority of near majority Asian communities.
Chicago does NOT have the Asian communities that the big two have. And all the great Lakes states do have a significant hispanic community (Cleveland-Lorain, Detroit-Sw Detroit, Milwaukee-south Milwaukee). Chicagos hispanic population is much larger, and more spread out.
Only Cincinnati and St. Louis is black and white.
I agree with 18Montclaiir. NY and LA are the ones that look more integrated.
If you look at the maps of New York and especially Los Angeles, you will notice the white dominated areas are often a lighter blue, which means they have more diversity than many of the other cities, which have suburbs that are often colored a deep dark blue. This is also true to a lesser extent of Chicago and Philadelphia.
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If you look at the maps of New York and especially Los Angeles, you will notice the white dominated areas are often a lighter blue, which means they have more diversity than many of the other cities, which have suburbs that are often colored a deep dark blue. This is also true to a lesser extent of Chicago and Philadelphia.
Interesting maps btw.
Your hunch is right that there is a distinction between LA and NYC vs Chicago and Philadelphia. In the first two, there have been big gains by the non-white population in their suburban areas, while the latter have not seen as much.
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Actually, Los Angeles looks the most segregated in a way... Because so many whites seem to avoid living in greater LA entirely.
Not to mention the huge swaths of the LA metro that are almost entirely Latino and the huge blobs that are almost entirely Asian. Sure, those areas aren't completely one ethnicity, but it's close.
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Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia
