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Study finds US cities more racially integrated

Authors caution against calling end of all segregation

By Sam Roberts

 |  New York Times  

  January 31, 2012

More than 40 years after the federal government enacted fair-housing legislation and the Great Migration of blacks from the South began to ebb, residential segregation in metropolitan America has been significantly curtailed, according to a study released yesterday. The study of census results from thousands of neighborhoods found that the nation’s cities are more racially integrated than at any time since 1910; that all-white enclaves “are effectively extinct’’; and that while black urban ghettos still exist, they are shriveling.

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