America’s other highly segregated places

New York-Newark-Jersey City

A city can be both diverse and segregated at once. That is the case for New York, which remains segregated despite the high-profile recent diversification of enclaves like Harlem, which is no longer majorityblack. The region’s segregation numbers are affected by the inclusion of Newark, a poor city in New Jersey.

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin

One of the top destinations for black migrants from the racist Jim Crow South, Chicago greeted the new arrivals by confining them to specific communities and preying on them with unfair home-buying terms. Today, the city is evenly divided between whites, blacks and Hispanics, but blacks are concentrated on the South Side.

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn

Most of the car factories in the “Motor City” were actually built in suburbs which denied homes to blacks. Black riots in 1967 accelerated white flight, and the decline of the auto industry crippled the economy. The semi-good news: the region has become less segregated since 2000.

Cleveland-Elyria

Cleveland’s black population has long been concentrated on the east side, but the foreclosure crisis and continued white outmigration have radically altered some neighbourhoods over the last decade. Every one of Cleveland’s majority-white districts gained black population between 2000 and 2010, though the city was also experiencing its largest black exodus ever.

St. Louis

The turmoil in Ferguson, Mo., a St. Louis suburb, brought national attention to the region’s racial divisions. They are visible to the naked eye: the area north of St. Louis’s Delmar Blvd. is poor and almost entirely black, the area to the south is wealthy and white. The de facto wall is known as “The Delmar Divide.”