How the Federal Government Built White Suburbia (segregation)

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5. Fascinating.

Except that most of the suburbs around Houston date to long after this. Mine was built in 2006. It's more segregated now than it was in 2008.

Moreover, cities were pretty segregated in the '10s and '20s and '30s. We confuse codfication and history with origin and the present. It's convenient, it's nice for rhetoric, but it only confuses thinking.

While mentioning history, it's still true that most black segregated areas still are black and segregation; we tend to decry gentrification when it happens. Many of the all-white neighborhoods from the '50s are now mostly minority, often black (or in the S/SW Latino). Partly because integration led to white flight, but also because it's older housing stock, smaller in size, and often just less desirable than a lot of newer housing.