A day or so later, I stumbled across this page from the Census Bureau which gives a measure of racial integration by city. Here's their definition of the "Dissimilarity Index," their measure of integration.
The dissimilarity index is the most commonly used measure of segregation between two groups, reflecting their relative distributions across neighborhoods within a city or metropolitan area. It can range in value from 0, indicating complete integration, to 100, indicating complete segregation.Looking at the data, I noticed something right away. All of the top 10 most segregated cities are in the Union. Looking farther down the table, only 2 of the worst 20 are in Dixie. Check it out.
| Rank | Metro Area | Side | Black Pop | White Pop | Total Pop | Dissimilarity Index |
| 1 | Gary, IN | Union | 122,686 | 428,791 | 631,362 | 87.9 |
| 2 | Detroit, MI | Union | 1,012,262 | 3,096,900 | 4,441,551 | 86.7 |
| 3 | Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI | Union | 232,247 | 1,116,150 | 1,500,741 | 84.4 |
| 4 | New York, NY | Union | 2,118,957 | 3,684,669 | 9,314,235 | 84.3 |
| 5 | Chicago, IL | Union | 1,541,641 | 4,798,533 | 8,272,768 | 83.6 |
| 6 | Newark, NJ | Union | 440,597 | 1,196,664 | 2,032,989 | 83.4 |
| 7 | Flint, MI | Union | 88,356 | 323,136 | 436,141 | 81.2 |
| 8 | Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY | Union | 134,645 | 965,233 | 1,170,111 | 80.4 |
| 9 | Cleveland-Lorain-Elyria, OH | Union | 412,782 | 1,697,660 | 2,250,871 | 79.7 |
| 10 | Saginaw-Bay City-Midland, MI | Union | 40,875 | 332,429 | 403,070 | 79.1 |
| 11 | Nassau-Suffolk, NY | Union | 223,122 | 2,105,352 | 2,753,913 | 79 |
| 12 | Johnstown, PA | Union | 5,492 | 223,066 | 232,621 | 78.8 |
| 13 | St. Louis, MO-IL | Union | 474,549 | 2,014,776 | 2,603,607 | 78 |
| 14 | Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN | Union | 212,452 | 1,375,267 | 1,646,395 | 78 |
| 15 | Birmingham, AL | Dixie | 276,044 | 611,574 | 921,106 | 77.4 |
| 16 | Kankakee, IL | Union | 15,942 | 80,829 | 103,833 | 77.3 |
| 17 | Gadsden, AL | Dixie | 15,120 | 84,919 | 103,459 | 77.1 |
| 18 | Philadelphia, PA-NJ | Union | 1,008,173 | 3,583,090 | 5,100,931 | 76.9 |
| 19 | Bergen-Passaic, NJ | Union | 104,677 | 890,640 | 1,373,167 | 76.8 |
| 20 | Benton Harbor, MI | Union | 25,729 | 126,798 | 162,453 | 76.6 |
Since the Stars and Bars are really only displayed in the old Confederacy, this would suggest that flying that flag leads to integration in some way. At the very least, there's a correlation.
Hmm.
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I grew up in the Midwest. I've lived in New York, New England, California, and now the South -- South Carolina. And i have to say that it is the least segregated of the places I have lived, by FAR.
NYC was an interesting place -- it's VERY wealthy out VERY poor and not much in between. However, most of the Middle class there are black. If a young teen make held a door open for a lady, he was more likely to be black. If a young teen, male or female, said "Excuse me" they were very likely black. But blacks and whites rarely lived together or socialized together. (Most of my friends were black, mainly because of that middle class thing -- we were waaaay more alike. Or parents were teachers and so on; we had respect slapped into us; we knew our manners...)
Great comment, anon. I've found the same thing in Charleston compared to northern cities that I've visited.
Jason Riley has an excellent book out called, Please Stop Helping Us. The first section is touchingly, tragically autobiographical. It tells of his family's escape from the ghetto into the middle class and then, sadly, how his peers deliberately embraced the culture of the ghetto and many boomeranged back to failure. It's really worth a read.
From my sixth-grade year, we were the only white (*) kids for blocks and blocks. But then, my father was a Southerner.
(*) whitish, since my family is "pink"
Also, for a couple of years, we attended a "black church", as they ran a Sunday-bus through our area and our old church didn't
Of course, as time went on, life in that neighborhood became less ideal as:
1) the bureaucrats "redeveloped" the even more poor sections of the city, resulting in those people moving into our neighborhood;
2) the increasingly openly expressed hatred of whites that many black have, and which is *encouraged* by the "liberals" who rarely have to live with the results themselves.
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