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Yeah, people tend to want to live near people that are like them and share their values and many blacks and Hispanics make poor decisions in life that lead to problems. That's not surprising at all. Also, people need to seriously stop using the term "Latinx", it's stupid and unnecessary.
The word latinx is mainly used by academics and journalists as well as social justice activists. Only a small cohrot of Americans use the term.
I find the segregation to be much more prominent in the Democrat-controlled cities, & all sized Dem states, but New England & California moreso. The more Liberal a state is, the more segregated it is...just my opinion & observations from my life's travels.
I have lived in a lot of places, & visited many more. It would be very difficult to convince me otherwise.
I found the South to be the most successfully integrated by far. I lived in the Atlanta & Birmingham metro areas, & all races mixed, & got along well, for the most part. In New England, I saw very few minorities at all...they just do not seem to live there, outside the largest cities. Cali's got lots of minorities, but they are highly segregated into haves, & have nots.
There are idiots everywhere, in the US and in Canada. To think there isnt racism in Canada is wrong.
Exactly. Blackface Trudeau, anyone?
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However, what does racisms have to do with people living where they want to and contributing to your perceived segregation? Is the government stating that people cant live somewhere based on their race? Are groups of people going around and dragging people out of their houses and forcing them to move somewhere else? If so, lets see it because I certainly havent seen it.
Exactly. The segregation is self-selected.
Now we have California trying to argue that its very racially segregated schools should be addressed via reparations. Well, if California is so worried about its segregated schools being so racially oppressive, why won't California Democrats fully support school vouchers so that students aren't trapped in their segregated schools any more? Let the money follow the student and stop trapping kids in failing (and usually racially segregated) public schools.
I work in NYC as an inspector, and im also from NYC. I'm sorry to break it to you. Nyc is one of the nation's most segregated cities racially and economically. Yeah you might see a sprinkle of blacks and asians in Manhattan liberal waspy or Jewish elite neighborhoods, but that does not mean integration. Also neighborhoods in NYC are also divided up by politics too. People want to live around their own kind. Even in Queens their is a middle class black that has a higher income bracket than many white neighborhoods in NYC.
Looks like I won't be moving to New York City anytime soon. And this isn't to bash New Yorkers. I just don't know if it would be for me.
More than 80 percent of major metropolitan areas in the United States were actually more segregated in 2019 than they were in 1990. The United States continues to be a place of segregation, not integration.
Racial residential segregation also undermines the possibility of a national community with a sense of shared purpose and common destiny. As the Kerner Commission wrote in its landmark report of 1968, integration is “the only course which explicitly seeks to achieve a single nation” rather than a dual or permanently divided society.
Residents of highly segregated Black and Latinx neighborhoods, including white residents, have lower life expectancies, lower incomes, lower home values and lower educational attainments. Conversely, Black and brown people in integrated or highly segregated white communities have much better life outcomes along these measures.https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...al-ncna1276372
With all this happening, ethnic ghettos which are considered no go zones will grow and the USA will permanently a divided society.
These days it seems like it is minorities/immigrants are the ones that want to remain separate from our main society and don't want to assimilate even though today unlike in the past there is plenty of opportunity for them to do so. It will just continue to divide us along cultural and linguistic lines.
it’s easy to find the most segregated neighborhoods. just look to where the wealthy white liberals live. these include your beloved politicians and celebrities
Curious, where do rich white conservatives live? I
I find the segregation to be much more prominent in the Democrat-controlled cities, & all sized Dem states, but New England & California moreso. The more Liberal a state is, the more segregated it is...just my opinion & observations from my life's travels.
I have lived in a lot of places, & visited many more. It would be very difficult to convince me otherwise.
I found the South to be the most successfully integrated by far. I lived in the Atlanta & Birmingham metro areas, & all races mixed, & got along well, for the most part. In New England, I saw very few minorities at all...they just do not seem to live there, outside the largest cities. Cali's got lots of minorities, but they are highly segregated into haves, & have nots.
Did you ever live in Boston area? Or when you mean New England do you mean suburbs of Connecticut Maine vermont?
The upsurge in crime the last few years isn't helping. The BLM riots hurt, too. Then crazy mayors in NY, Chicago, SF, LA, Baltimore, and Atlanta made people not want to live in places run by people like that. A lot of minor cities followed the same path.
This resegregation isn't racist. It's the rational response of people who don't want to expose themselves to crime, filth, and degradation.
Nyc, Manhattan specifically, is incredible integrated. Especially after the last mayor and all the low and moderate income housing units mixed in with market rate built over the last few years. And I am talking about buildings, not just neighborhoods.
I could find the stats but I think you would be surprised.
Rich living next to poor is not unusual in nyc.
You have low income housing in some of the wealthiest neighborhoods because when the neighborhoods gentrified, they didn’t get rid of the huge developments they had existed from the mid 1900s.
And as Brooklyn is now just as expensive as Manhattan, it’s even more the case. Multi million dollar apartments next to section 8 housing. - on the same block.
Most of the very wealthy people who have a place in New York City are owners of multiple properties so you cannot make the comparison because during the summer and on weekends and during Covid lockdowns they’ve all gone to their enclaves in Martha’s Vineyard the Hamptons and so forth
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