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Chicago and Detroit, never seen so much racial tension in my life. In Nashville all races get along pretty well it was shocking when you get back to the Midwest.
Chicago and Detroit, never seen so much racial tension in my life. In Nashville all races get along pretty well it was shocking when you get back to the Midwest.
In regards to my own Midwestern city, I don't think there is overt racial animosity but there is pretty blatant segregation. The bulk of the black population lives east of I-71.
I don't know if the Greater Los Angeles area counts since it's so big and few people have the time to visit every corner of the metro.. if you include the LA county, OC, San Bernardino and Riverside areas as a single metro.
A good example of this is when East Detroit changed its name to Eastpointe during that time period. Farmington Hills is actually be one of the more integrated Detroit suburbs historically, but your point is so true.
Milwaukee is another area that comes to mind.
Interesting that Great Lakes cities are being mentioned the most. Here is a story about Milwaukee. This was in 1974, hopefully things have changed. My parents were selling our house in a Northern suburb (Fox Point). One of the people who looked at the house was a black man. My parents then received several phone calls including death threats from neighbors telling them not to sell to the black.
It's split between wealthy white liberals on the North Side and Northern suburbs, working class whites and Latinos on the NW and SW sides and suburbs, and poor and lower middle class blacks on the South Side and southern suburbs.
Of course it's more nuanced than that, like I'm from a mixed family (white dad from the Balkans, Mexican mother) from a Southwestern suburb but in my town there was also a lot of Arabs from Syria and Palestine, in addition to that there are are a few pockets of poor whites and ethnic minorities on the far North Side of the city and very wealthy white suburbs like Oak Park that literally border the poorest black ghettoes in Chicago on one side and very mediocre white/Latino suburbs on the other. Rich white liberal areas also have a lot of Indians, Chinese, Koreans and Jews, especially in the Northern suburbs. However the above descriptions are sure general patterns.
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