Why don't black and white Americans live together?

Re:Why don't black and white Americans live together? by tptacek on Saturday September 24, 2016 @09:45AM (#12570882)

I live in Oak Park, right on its eastern boundary with Austin (near one of the most homogeneously black neighborhoods in Chicago). One of the things I like about my block is that it's almost evenly divided black/white.

But the more expensive center of Oak Park is less well integrated, and some of the same city dynamics that produce disparities elsewhere are at play in Oak Park, too.

It also helps that Oak Park is tiny. You can walk across it in like 20 minutes.

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Re:Why don't black and white Americans live together? by elptacek on Saturday September 24, 2016 @10:18AM (#12571010)

Sorry to correct you, dear... I think there are 5 or 6 completely white households on our block out of 39 houses total.

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Re:Why don't black and white Americans live together? by tptacek on Saturday September 24, 2016 @10:24AM (#12571041)

Do you agree with me that Oak Park is not uniformly well integrated? (I wonder if my perception of it isn't accurate.)

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Re:Why don't black and white Americans live together? by elptacek on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @11:08AM (#12598231)

Oh, yes. It is definitely not uniformly integrated. If you took a census, I suspect you'd find that the distribution of racial diversity in Oak Park is a direct reflection of the distribution of racial diversity plotted against income level, consistent with the geographic area distribution.

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