Age and lifestyle are replacing ethnicity as America’s main basis of residential segregation

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

• QUESTION: This is a 1971-era forecast — did age/lifestyle segregation actually overtake racial segregation in subsequent decades? Worth checking half a century of hindsight.
• XREF: Connects to theories of urban sorting by lifestyle — plausible parallel with contemporary ‘filter bubbles’ formed by cultural proximity rather than race.