Metropolitan Segregation: No Breakthrough in Sight

John R. Logan and Brian J. Stults

Working Papers from U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies

Abstract: The 2020 Census offers new information on changes in residential segregation in metropolitan regions across the country as they continue to become more diverse. We take a long view, assessing trends since 1980 and extrapolating to the future. These new data mostly reinforce patterns that were observed a decade ago: high but slowly declining black-white segregation, and less intense but hardly changing segregation of Hispanics and Asians from whites. Enough time has passed since the civil rights era of the 1960s and 1970s to draw this conclusion: segregation will continue to divide Americans well into the 21st Century.

Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2022-05
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