New analysis of U.S. Census data dating back to 1880 reveals more about the breadth and depth of patterns of racial segregation.
"The most precise and intensive study of residential segregation ever done delivers some surprising conclusions about its origins in the United States," reports Matthew Yglesias.
"Trevon Logan and John Parman (from Ohio State University and the College of William and Mary, respectively) find that between 1880 and 1940, the odds of a white person living next door to a black one (or vice versa) essentially fell by half, and did so uniformly across all regions," according to the article's summation of the critical findings of the research.
According to Yglesias, those findings introduce a new understanding about the uniformity of racial segregation—both in places with few African Americans and in places with many African Americans.
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