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Is it the End of the Segregated Century?

In "The End of the Segregated Century," a new paper by Sanford School professor Jacob Vigdor and Harvard professor of economics Edward Glaeser, American cities are now more integrated than they’ve been at any point since 1910.

“America’s neighborhoods are much less segregated than they used to be, and we need to appreciate the story of how it happened,” says Vigdor.

“It’s not really about upper-income whites aggressively gentrifying black areas and forcing out long-term residents, as some suggest. It’s primarily a story of progress, of black families choosing to leave segregated cities and live in more diverse areas elsewhere,” says Vigdor.

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