10 Segregated Urban Areas in The United States

April 1st, 2011 - By TheEditor

There was once a time–known as Jim Crow–when blacks and whites were mandated by law to live, eat and attend school separate from each other. Even though Jim Crow laws were abolished in the early 1960s, it hasn’t stopped residential segregation. Census data from 2010 has confirmed that blacks and whites still tend to live in their own neighborhoods, often far apart from each other. Using this data, Salon compiled a list of the 10 most segregated cities in the country. The rankings are based on a dissimilarity index, a measure used by social scientists to gauge residential segregation. A score of one indicates perfect integration while 100 indicates complete segregation.

Los Angeles

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Segregation level: 67.84

Though Los Angeles is hugely diverse, it is also greatly segregated. Blacks and Latinos and more likely to live near one another, but their separation from white neighborhoods persists. Segregation between Asians and whites are about 20 points lower than that of blacks, mostly due to the temporary segregation of immigrants living in ethnic district. Almost 20 years after the 1992 L.A. riots, segregation continues to confine blacks to region’s most dangerous neighborhoods and jobless ghettos.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CAAWCLZMT7WEVEVOBVBGNAZYJM AllTruest

    Sigh. Just another reason these cities are in financial trouble. Everyone believes that NYC and LA are diverse, but that’s misleading. These cities have huge, isolated populaces, divided by ethnicity, language, religion, a failure to become fully American – basically inbreeding themselves into oblivion. These are sad examples of outmoded socioeconomic planned obsolescence and auto-cannibalistic ethnic stratification.

  • scott

    where is Atlanta..by far one of the most segregated cities in this country…but i highly blame ghetto blacks ..neighborhoods can be nice and all of a sudden that ghetto mentality move in ..forget it your neighborhood is wrecked and your property value is out the window

  • tamyou1

    there are some negative blacks every where just as whites and white people tend to do things in the dark and they dont always have blk progression high on there priority list and there the ones who are most in the position to grant opportunites so dont be so hard on blks we have it hard enough we just need to learn to put businesses back in our own communties and lik 2pac said see each other as brothers and sisters other than a distant strangers

  • http://twitter.com/justoneblackman @justoneblackman

    Anybody find it ironic that none of the cities listed are in the South?

  • hbebizmt

    I expected to see Atlanta on this list. So, where does it stand?

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