Residential Segregation 22

Question 1

What areas typically have the highest amount of Hispanic segregation?

Answer 1

areas with the biggest Hispanic populations (Logan & Stults 2011)

Question 2

What metro areas are seeing slow increasing segregation for Hispanics?

Answer 2

areas with smaller Hispanic populations, “new destinations” (Logan & Stults 2011)

Question 3

The Hispanic population grew more rapidly in the last three decades in metro areas with lower levels of segregation at the start than in areas with high levels of segregation. Because the Hispanic population more than tripled during these years, the shift does not necessarily reflect migration. Then what does it possibly reflect?

Answer 3

It could be caused by some combination of selective immigration from abroad and differential fertility. (Logan & Stults 2011)

Question 4

Hispanics and Asians have been moving toward new destinations since the 1980s, and this represents movement toward areas where they are less segregated. But what has happened with this process?

Answer 4

Their arrival has been met with increasing segregation. As a result their dispersion around the country has not had much net impact on the extent to which they are separated from whites. (Logan & Stults 2011)

Question 5

The average African-American lives in a neighborhood where the share of population that is black exceeds the metropolitan average by roughly __ percentage points.

Answer 5

30 (Glaeser & Vigdor 2012)