Atlanta's more diverse than in 1970 (Auburn, Clayton: fit in, 2015, neighborhoods)

[cqholt]

It was considered hypersegregated in 1970, and is no longer considered in 2010.
New Research Shows 'Hypersegregated' Metros Have Halved in Number Since 1970 - CityLab
Hypersegregated is considered:

A city is “hypersegregated” if it meets four of the following five criteria:

1)Black residents are “unevenly distributed,” geographically; that is, the percentage of blacks within residential areas doesn’t mirror their citywide population share.
2) Black residents are isolated—they predominantly live in African American neighborhoods and don’t tend to have that much contact with white residents.
3) These neighborhoods are clustered together in certain parts of town as “one large, contiguous ghetto” as opposed to being scattered across the city.
4) The black population is highly concentrated these small, geographically compact areas.
5) These residents tend to live in the urban cores of the city.

[arjay57]

Wonder where Hispanics fit in? As I understand it they are now the nation's largest minority.

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by arjay57

Wonder where Hispanics fit in? As I understand it they are now the nation's largest minority.

Wouldn't that make them the majority?

[JPD]

This is extremely easy to believe.

[JPD]

Originally Posted by cqholt

Wouldn't that make them the majority?

No. it means they're the second largest in number. White people are still the majority.

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by JPD

This is extremely easy to believe.

Atlanta has come a long way from the white flight era where entire areas of the city switched from 100% white to 100% black.

[ElleKaye]

i don't know what it was like in 1970, but even without even a study, I can say I find it much more diverse here now than in the past. That is one of the things I like about it here.

Quite a bit may have to do with the airport and maybe some people deciding not to move on. I am from the south and grew up with mostly a black and white culture yet it is far from that here or even where I grew up.

I mean my boyfriend is Peruvian. Who could have seen that coming given my past? There are things that need sorting out, but I basically have no cultural boundaries anymore. I think I became like I am because of the diversity of the population here.

[jero23]

Originally Posted by arjay57

Wonder where Hispanics fit in? As I understand it they are now the nation's largest minority.

Hispanics are an ethnic group that can be of any race or mixture of races, thus that would not be applicable.

[Clayton white guy]

Of course Atlanta is more diverse than it was in 1970's. Definitely a more eclectic group of people living throughout the Metro. Think of the diversity of even former Jim Crow era segregated residential areas such as Sweet Auburn/ Old fourth Ward, the incredible diversity of formerly all White suburbs in Clayton, Henry, Cobb, and Gwinnett.

[arjay57]

Originally Posted by jero23

Hispanics are an ethnic group that can be of any race or mixture of races, thus that would not be applicable.

Interesting. I could swear I've seen Hispanics identified as an ethnic minority in many discussions of diversity.