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There's a popular perception that America is reaching the point of having voluntary segregation -- that is, that black families are choosing to live in black neighborhoods rather than try to break down color barriers in traditionally segregated.

The numbers suggest that this is not the case. The U.S. Census Bureau has collects mountains of data on everyone in the country. For instance, this chart here illustrates the distribution of racial dissimilarity over time. You'll not that the curve for 2000 is substantially lower than the curve for 1980. I know what you're thinking, though -- we all know there are three types of lies, and this is one of them.  I'm with you. Trends within the trends show that integration is not uniform across the country. The Rust Belt cities are integrating more slowly than those in the South and the West. Smaller cities are not integrating as quickly as larger cities, and to some extent they are experiencing re-segregation.  Middle-class neighborhoods are more likely to be integrated then upper-class or lower-class neighborhoods. If you poke on the census housing patterns report you can find all of this information and more. How cool is that!?!

I don't have a grand point to make here, I just find this sort of information incredibly cool.

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Last updated by Nicholas Beaudrot on 11:33 13 February 2005