Age, lifestyle, and class increasingly replace ethnic and racial segregation in U.S. cities
Evidence
As a basis for the spatial segregation of neighborhoods in the United States, ethnicity (as distinct from “color”) has never been very stable and continues to decline in importance (see Cressey, 1971). And it seems possible that racial differentiation may follow the same course. In their stead, age and life-style, especially as they combine with class, appear to be emerging as major bases of segregation. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 1133
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- Age and lifestyle are replacing ethnicity as America’s main basis of residential segregation (similarity 0.95)
- Class-based neighborhood segregation predates the modern city (similarity 0.83)
- Segregation research expanded from measuring racial patterns to analyzing class-based consequences on individual outcomes. (similarity 0.82)
- Racial residential segregation exceeds class segregation and persists across all social classes. (similarity 0.79)
- Spatial segregation operates at fine grain, not just neighborhoods and suburbs (similarity 0.79)
- Age segregation in suburbs promises calm but requires urban proximity. (similarity 0.78)