http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-most-diverse-cities-are-often-the-most-segregated/
They measure levels of racial integration and segregation by comparing city-wide racial diversity with neighborhood racial diversity. Chicago has high diversity over the whole city, but its neighborhoods tend to have low diversity, so it is considered to have a high level of segregation.
Thought it was supposed to be Detroit…
http://media.mlive.com/news/detroit_impact/photo/detroit-race-ethnicityjpg-22460d870367ecf8.jpg
Edit: Looks like they’re talking city proper, probably what I had heard previously for Detroit is for Detroit metro area (which would make sense).
Detroit is the 19th most segregated on the list; it is fairly low city-wide diversity, but neighborhood diversity is significantly lower even than that.
The full list of the 100 biggest cities in the US is at the bottom of that web page.
Where I live now in the building everyone seems to be either White or Asian. In the building across the street which is owned by a different company it appears to be 100% black.
This thread is going to shut down quickly
Racial topics are talked about all the time on here…
it might be interesting to match up the economics of those neighborhoods (income and housing costs, for example) and overlay those same race/ethnicity maps…
Chicago, the city, is very segregated. Some of the suburbs are, but many of them are not, and in fact, very diverse, especially northwest and west of the city. Strange, you’d think it would be the other way around.
