{"id":3504,"date":"2007-07-11T20:09:20","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T03:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/11\/the-least-segregated-cities-for-latinos-in-2000\/"},"modified":"2007-07-11T20:09:20","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T03:29:08","slug":"the-least-segregated-cities-for-latinos-in-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3504","title":{"rendered":"The Least Segregated Cities for Latinos in 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is a follow-up to an earlier post, you can look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rachelstavern.com\/?p=606\">this post from\u00a0<\/a>July 2nd\u00a0where I discuss the different dimensions of residential segregation.\u00a0 That post discusses a few of the methodological issues, and it links to the Census Bureau report where the data comes from.\u00a0 So if you are confused about the differences, between\u00a0clustering and exposure (for example), you can get more information from that post.\u00a0 If you link to the actual Census report, they show statistical formulas that are used in calculating segregation using each method described.\u00a0 They also discuss other issues related to measuring segregation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You should also keep in mind this is <strong>only measuring segregation for Latinos, and it&#8217;s only measuring urban segregation.<\/strong>\u00a0 I am preparing future posts on\u00a0Asians and Native Americans, and you\u00a0can read the previous posts on<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rachelstavern.com\/?p=606\">The Dimensions of Segregation<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.rachelstavern.com\/?p=623\">most<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rachelstavern.com\/?p=623\">least<\/a> segregated cities for blacks.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rachelstavern.com\/?p=622\">most<\/a> segregated cities for Latinos.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0The analysis of Latinos only 36\u00a0metro areas\u00a0met the Census criteria for analysis&#8211;the number was 43 metros for blacks.<\/p>\n<p>All data comes from the US Census Bureau<\/p>\n<p>5 Most Even Metro Areas (cities where Latinos are most evenly spread; the number is the percent of people who would have to move for the group to be evenly distributed across the metro area)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>St. Louis<\/li>\n<li>Seattle, Bellevue, Everett<\/li>\n<li>Fort Lauderdale, FL<\/li>\n<li>Portland, Vancouver<\/li>\n<li>Baltimore<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>5\u00a0Highest Exposure Metros (cities where\u00a0Latinos have highest chance of having contact with whites)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>St. Louis<\/li>\n<li>Baltimore<\/li>\n<li>Seattle, Bellevue, Everett<\/li>\n<li>New Orleans<\/li>\n<li>Portland, Vancouver<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>5\u00a0Least Concentrated Metros (cities where\u00a0Latinos are\u00a0least densely concentrated\/more spread throughout the metro area)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Nassau, Suffolk (Long Island, NY)<\/li>\n<li>Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater<\/li>\n<li>Orange County, CA<\/li>\n<li>Detroit<\/li>\n<li>Baltimore<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>5\u00a0Least Centralized\u00a0Metros (cities where\u00a0Latinos are\u00a0least concentrated in the central core of the city)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Oakland, CA<\/li>\n<li>Naussau, Suffolk (Long Island, NY)<\/li>\n<li>Orange County, CA<\/li>\n<li>Newark\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Baltimore<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>5\u00a0Least Clustered Metros<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>St. Louis<\/li>\n<li>Baltimore<\/li>\n<li>Seattle, Bellevue, Everett<\/li>\n<li>New Orleans<\/li>\n<li>Portland, Vancouver<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Overal\u00a0Least Segregated for Latinos (Averaging ranks for all 5 major dimensions) Drumroll&#8230;..<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Baltimore<\/li>\n<li>St. Louis<\/li>\n<li>Fort Lauderdale, FL<\/li>\n<li>Nassau, Suffolk (Long Island, NY)<\/li>\n<li>Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater<\/li>\n<li>Detroit<\/li>\n<li>Seattle, Bellevue, Everett<\/li>\n<li>Atlanta<\/li>\n<li>Oakland, CA<\/li>\n<li>Cleveland, Lorain, Elyria<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>A few points for discussion:<\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0this point in our analysis of the most segregated cities\u00a0readers should notice\u00a0a trend for the least segregated metro areas&#8211;the cities with relatively small percentages of a group tend to have lower levels of segregation for such groups.\u00a0 Of course this is not always true, but it is frequently the case.\u00a0 For example, St. Louis and Detroit aren&#8217;t well known for their Latino populations in part because they are relatively small.\u00a0 Just as the black population in Orange County, CA or Portland, Oregon are relatively small, but\u00a0these cities all rank as less segregated.\u00a0\u00a0Of course, we\u00a0have to ask, does less segregation necessarily mean that a\u00a0particular city\/metro would be a good place to live?\u00a0 Is St. Louis really that welcoming for Latinos?\u00a0 My guess is probably not.\u00a0 Same for Detroit.\u00a0 I attended school in Detroit, and I had\u00a0several Latino friends and acquaintances, who were from other\u00a0places like New York City\u00a0or Texas.\u00a0 Many of these friends missed having the variety of restaurants, shops, dance clubs, and other places that reflected their ethnic backgrounds.\u00a0 I would not be surprised if a black person living in Seattle felt the same way.\u00a0 I bring this up because I think\u00a0integration\/segregation is just one factor that\u00a0affects the well\u00a0being of people of color.<\/p>\n<p>Now whites are a different story, since we can generally access products and services that cater to us in almost any place in the US.\u00a0 This is why we really need to have data on whites that reflects white&#8217;s level of integration in these metro areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is a follow-up to an earlier post, you can look at this post from\u00a0July 2nd\u00a0where I discuss the different dimensions of residential segregation.\u00a0 That post discusses a few of the methodological issues, and it links to the Census &hellip; 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