Racial residential segregation exceeds class segregation and persists across all social classes.

Evidence

With respect to residential segregation, in 1965 the Taeubers documented extensive separation of blacks and whites. They concluded that, regardless of region, city size, economic base, local laws, and the extent of other forms of discrimination, there was “a very high degree of segregation of the residences of whites and Negroes” (Taeuber & Taeuber, 1965, p. 35). … Farley (1977) demonstrated that racial segregation was not only more extensive in absolute terms than the segregation of social classes, but that it occurred regardless of social class. For example, his analysis of 1970 Census data indicated that “whites who have more than a college education are more residentially segregated from similarly well educated blacks than they are from whites who have never completed a year of school” (p. 514). — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3348

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in structural racism and the persistence of segregation despite apparent progress — parallels other sources on how class mobility does not erase racial boundaries.