I am not surprised
BET released a list of the most segregated cities in America:
10. Philadelphia
9. Chicago
8. New York City
7. Buffalo-Niagra Falls, N.Y. (sic)
6. Cincinnati
5. Newark, N.J.
4. St. Louis
3. Cleveland-Lorain-Elyria, Ohio
2. Detroit
1. Milwaukee-Waukesha, Wis.
Not a lot of southern cities on that list. Seems to support my conclusion here.
January 22nd, 2004 at 3:53 pm
Having grown up in Milwaukee, I can tell you that this doesn’t surprise me. Milwaukee and Chicago aren’t just segregated black versus white, either. There are still distinct Italian and Polish and German and Greek neighborhoods, something you don’t really find anywhere in the South.
It goes to our running discussion that the North isn’t immune to racism. It’s just different in kind (not degree) up there.
January 22nd, 2004 at 7:36 pm
It’s getting scary when I begin agreeing with tgirsch on a regular basis! ;^)
January 23rd, 2004 at 10:33 am
I would’ve thought Atlanta would be on that list – maybe it’s improved since I visited regularly.
January 25th, 2004 at 12:39 am
Want to see segregation? Come to Connecticut. Most of the minority population reside in Bridgeport, New Haven, Hartford, Willimantic, or Waterbury. The rest of the towns have (gasp!) expensive properties, and high tax rates. It seems the liberal Democrats have found a way to implement subtle segregation… tax the hell out of people.
January 25th, 2004 at 12:46 pm
Haivng lived in many lof those cities, as well as the South, I can say that racism exists in both places. but I will say its more open and more accepted in polite society in the OSuth than it is in the North. My wife got hit a few years ago in her car, and the person ran off. Every one of her co-workers asked her if it was a black person driving. A question like that would almost certianly not get aksed in the North, at least not ina group. Occasionally, in a work setting, one of my co-woerkers were spout some sort of subtle racism.
Basically, in my expieirence, there is less overt racism in the north, less “they are stupid/lazy/incompetent” in the north than in the south, less notice of mixed race social groupsin the north, but much more “I live with my people” than in the South. I don’t know if one kind is more indiciative of progress or not, but they are certianly different expiriences.