https://www.dailykos.com/news/micro-segregation News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Mon, 27 Jan 2020 01:59:29 +0000 Mon, 27 Jan 2020 01:59:29 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/5/28/1666781/-White-Flight-and-Donald-Trump-Uptick-in-Old-Problem-with-Modern-Twist <p>With the ascension of Donald Trump and the ensuing Republican near take-over of Congress, the country is at risk of regressing in familiar ways: A return to an era of open institutional racism—as evidenced by recent roll backs on voting rights—an acceleration of extra-urban segregation by color, and the subtle promotion of casually racist attitudes that may impel even more whites to self-segregate, reversing decades of progress and potentially Balkanizing the United States.</p> <div> <div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder dk-x-embed" href="#" data-height="396" data-src="//embed.gettyimages.com/embed/671240574?et=vCvrXjOqS1Jy79SYLpqd1w&amp;tld=com&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=r5PJ7ra7fOxg4tsJpkZX6chmgA4INnMe2kxjKnsX61A=&amp;caption=true" data-width="594">Embedded Content</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p>The verdict according to a relatively recent study suggests that self-segregation among whites may be on the rise, but this time it is into whole new cities rather than between <a href="http://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/savvy/documents/press/pdfs/ASR_August_2015_Lichter_News_Release.pdf" target="_blank">neighborhoods</a>, the latter declining over the last five decades. But, under Trump, these divisions could get even worse.</p> </div> </div> <p>Trump’s ascension and appointment of people like Jeff Sessions as well as the prospects of a Republican Congress bent on serving the rich at the expense of ordinaries bring new worries about policies that will give aid and comfort to those who would roll back the decades of hard-won progress, turning America into a modern version of its former Apartheid self.</p> rss@dailykos.com (Sarah Gerace ) Bigotry DonaldTrump financialcollpase gonzalocuriel in-migration JeffSessions macro-segregation massforeclosures micro-segregation racialcemographics Racist VotingRightsAct WhiteFlight _1666781 Sun, 28 May 2017 21:14:10 +0000