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They might be mixed better overall in specific areas, but there's some significant segregation... anecdotally you can look at Boston and see very clear cross-ne
by awesomerobot 10y ago
They might be mixed better overall in specific areas, but there's some significant segregation... anecdotally you can look at Boston and see very clear cross-neighborhood divides.
Some mixed areas like the South End (50% white), but also the North End (90% white) and Roxbury (8% white). Roxbury and the North End are only 4 miles away from each other.
Not to mention the fact that the fact that Roxbury is only 8% white is primarily due to a huge wave of white flight to the metro Boston suburbs. This happened within our parents' lifetimes. In Boston one of the largest periods of white flight happened to coincide with forced school segregation (bussing).
The east coast may be liberal politically, but it's still also racist. You can see similar themes reoccurring with the rate of gentrification and the rise of charter schools in the city.
- clock_tower 10y agoNitpick: "White" is too coarse-grained for the North End; it's an ethnically mixed area near the end of gentrification, with SWPL elites displacing the native South Italians...
- awesomerobot 10y agoA bit shortsighted that you'd call Italians 'native' to the North End — even if we disregard Native Americans, The North End began with Irish immigrants (who managed to push out a small African community in a section called New Guinea). The Irish were ultimately pushed out by a mix of Jewish and Italian immigrants (the Jews ultimately shifted to Roxbury and the Italians took hold and established the North End as 'Little Italy'). I don't think gentrification is any more over than it was 100 years ago. It simply cycles.