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Originally Posted by Crawford
Probably, but the pretty clear variable is % AA. Heavily black metros, especially heavily black metros with large white working class, will have higher segregation. Redlining hasn't been a thing for at least 50 years.
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De jure red-lining has been gone for over 5 decades, but many legacy cities are still living with the fall-out from de facto red-lining due to the way the practice baked-in a lot of these residential patterns.
% black is obviously a big part of the equation too, but I strongly suspect that metro areas that have a higher % of their development from before 1960 have higher levels of black/white segregation.
Just compare legacy metros like NYC and Chicago against newer Sunbelt metros like Dallas and Houston.
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Originally Posted by Docere
Black-White Index of Dissimilarity (Black % of MSA)
New York 73 (16.2%)
Chicago 71.5 (17.1%)
Dallas 51.6 (16.8%)
Houston 57.2 (18%)
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Very similar overall percentages of blacks at the metro level, but significantly different black/white segregation index scores.