NYANKS said:
I mean, NYC is more democratic leaning and it's quite diverse. |
New York is diverse but doesn't appear to be particularly integrated. From the look of the map it seems like different racial groups are far more segregated than in other areas.
With such a small sample, it is difficult to say whether voting patterns have anything to do with racial integration; but I do wonder if there was a connection would the racial segregation/integration be the cause or result of voting and policy decisions. I would personally suspect that certain "progressive" policies have unintentionally enforced segregation. What I mean by that is fairly simple, initiatives like welfare and public housing (while well intentioned) are known to re-enforce poverty; and those policies (along with other initiatives) may have had the unintended consequence of maintaining racial segregation. On a side note, if this hypothesis was true it would have a potential (awful) side effect of encouraging further intervention in the economy which would (likely) have similarly negative outcomes.
