In St. Louis, segregation — geographic, cultural and economic - TopicsExpress



          

In St. Louis, segregation — geographic, cultural and economic — is normal. ... White flight and black flight adhered to the pattern: Whites wound up in South County and blacks in North County. What’s unusual about St. Louis — and goes a long way to explain the tension of the Ferguson protests — is not racism per se but the way the metropolitan area has chopped itself into bits, remaining socially and economically segregated long after racist laws were erased from the books.
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 19:10:54 +0000

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