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As I have researched overtime I have learned that segregated neighborhoods have started in the early 1920s and 30s. It is hard to integrate a society in some cities when the people who live in them are set in their ways. I learned that there is a term called “white flight” which means that as the minority began to move in into neighborhoods white family began to leave. It is said that for every one black family that moved into a neighborhood 3 white families left. I found this very disturbing and it made me question there is no way it could be that bad. I seen in the Washington Post “It 's widely documented that banks in this era refused loans to redlined blacks, that real estate agents steered them away from white neighborhoods, that legal …show more content…

I know that people are set in their ways of different races, but times are changing and there are benefits when it comes to having an integrated society. People have to realize that life will go on and you cannot live your life in denial and showing disrespect to the other minorities. I have always wondered which city is the least integrated city in the United States because you cannot talk about something that is so widely known but yet no one wants to talk about the issue. As I began to research this issue the Huffington Post showed that Detroit Michigan is the least integrated city in the US and Priceonomics showed that collectively that Oakland California is the most integrated city. When the data showed me this result I began to look at the why factor and how come these two cities could be so different. These two cities are more that 2,000 miles away from each other and their population being just 250,000 people different. I believe that location has something to do with it and what brings people into that city. There are many things that play a part in integrated neighborhoods, like for instance, you can update the …show more content…

I will have to say that I agree that having the money to live in certain neighborhoods and being able to provide for yourself will take effort. Living in Detroit Michigan can range from $1,251 to $562 and living in Oakland California can range from $3,117 to $1,638. This can be part of a reason why people of different nationalities don’t live close to each other. You would think that Detroit would be more integrated because the cost of living is cheaper but that is not the case. Living in cites where jobs may help to live in their neighborhoods. I believe that living within your means in a city will determine how well you do in that city. I believe that having jobs that pay you well enough you would be able to provide for yourself or your family. Some times the cost of travel will play a part in the decision of living in a city. Depending on what job you have depicts on how established you are in that neighborhood. Most common understandings of neighborhood tipping envision a transition from virtually all-white composition to virtually 100% minority. This is certainly the historical experience. Northern cities had relatively low numeral of racial differences in 1940, but as African Americans migrated from many neighborhoods within these cities steer from all-white to all-black. In contrast to this one-sided aspect of steer, many neighborhoods model physical composition –

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It is said in, “The Blood of Emmett Till” that between 1946 and 1953 in Chicago, if a black moved into an all-white neighborhood the “alarmed white residents would quickly sell their homes,” again treating the blacks as if they were some kind of disease, in fear of losing power. This isn’t even the worst thing they had done, the southern whites were so threatened by the blacks and so corrupted with power that they would form mobs and try to make people move out of their homes. Tyson tells us in, “The Blood of Emmett Till,” that on August 9th, 1953, a few days after Betty and Donald Howard moved into the all-white neighborhood of Trumbull Park Homes, “a mob of two thousand angry whites was throwing bricks and fire bombs...” at the Howard’s home trying to scare them into

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David Brooks makes many good points in his article, and I agree with what he says and can relate many of my personal stories to him. Many of us want to live with people like us, and many of us want to be with people that are like us. At the beginning Brooks mentions how diversity isn’t cared by many, and he’s right. Before moving to California I heard that this was a place where many people came from all over the world to live better lives, so I thought it would be a nice place to meet new people. At first my family wanted to move to Berkeley and we were looking at neighborhoods that were cheap to live in, we liked many neighborhoods, but a few friends of my dad who had lived there told us that those neighborhoods had many blacks and hispanics

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