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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (489603)	11/8/2003 1:10:07 PM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

While you may believe that there are few (or no)racial inequities in the Northeast (or anywhere else in the U.S.). People do measure levels of income disparity and residential separation between ethnic and racial groups. What do they find? "...the 50 metropolitan regions in the country that had the largest black populations in 2000. Of these, the 10 with the highest levels of segregation include: Detroit, MI; Milwaukee, WI; New York, NY; Chicago, IL; Newark, NJ: Cleveland, OH, Cincinnati, OH, Nassau-Suffolk, NY; St. Louis, MO; and Miami, FL... There have been moderate declines in some of them, but 6 of the 10 declined by 4 points or less over the past twenty years" (Miami fell 7 points between 1980 and 2000). "At the other extreme, there are several places on this list where segregation has now fallen into what social scientists consider the moderate range (under 50). These include several mid-sized metropolitan regions in the South: Charleston, Greenville, Norfolk, Raleigh-Durham, and Augusta. Riverside-San Bernardino (California) also falls in this category. In most of these segregation declined by 5 or 10 points, or even more, since 1980. " "Despite these signs of progress in the South, there are also examples of persistent segregation in large Southern cities... In Atlanta the news is mixed. Metro-level segregation has declined by 12 points, mainly due to a shift of African Americans to the suburbs. But it is still slightly above the national average (at 65.6), and segregation in the city of Atlanta has actually risen in the last twenty years (from 79.5 to 81.6) and is much higher than the national city average." - the Lewis Mumford Center's report on trends in residental segregation 1980-2000. (they also have information on differences in household income). Guess who has(ve) been the Mayor(s) of Atlanta since the 1980?