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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is America. The color line that matters isn't white/non-white, it's black/non-black. [/quote]

I am white and I live in a census district that is 80% AA in NE, I am fine with it but many people of all races have this issue.  Even AA often are not so keen on desegregation. I found this piece on the PG County in the post interesting.  Yes whites were moving out but other issues are also at play.

A racial safety zone

Scholars of the black middle class say many African Americans want to live together.

“They enjoy interacting with other blacks,” Karyn Lacy, a sociologist at the University of Michigan, wrote in her book “Blue-Chip Black,” for which she interviewed dozens of parents in Prince George’s. “Scholars have focused so much on the burden of blackness that they have devoted scant attention to the possibility that there is something enjoyable about being black and participating in a community of blacks.”  http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/prince-georges-county-growing-and-growing-more-segregated-census-shows/2011/10/14/gIQAbCc1TM_story_2.html

A lot of us cite diversity, but it is really hard to live in a diverse place where people are not like you either due to race, culture or class.  Most people see some likeness one way or another. [/quote]

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