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Class Differences in African American Residential Patterns in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: 1990-2000
Class Differences in African American Residential Patterns in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: 1990-2000
Residential patterns of various groups have received considerable attention in the past few decades. Using data from the 1990 Census and Census 2000, we examine changing residential patterns of African Americans of different income, occupational, and educational categories using the index of dissimilarity. We find that higher socioeconomic status (SES) African Americans generally live in more integrated neighborhoods than lower SES African Americans, though differences are modest. There we re also modest declines in segregation for many, though not all, SES groups from 1990 to 2000. Residential patterns across SES groups within race groups do not differ as much. Among both African Americans and non-Hispanic Whites, dissimilarity scores are highest for those in the lowest and highest SES groups.
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