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In reply to the discussion: Study Shows Most White Americans Don't Have Black Friends [View all]BumRushDaShow
(128,372 posts)Exclude certain folks from living in certain areas by law (legal segregation by a state or municipality, which was struck down after the mid-60s) or by de jure segregation (by lying to perspective buyers by indicating that housing in certain areas is "unavailable" or something similar to what happened with the various Levittown developments with contracts forbidding blacks to buy a house in these developments), or by de facto segregation (birds of a feather, flock together) + blacks are basically only ~13% of the population, then you have a result that shouldn't be too surprising.
I.e., whites are still ~78% of the population, so for every 100 people --
78 Whites
13 Blacks
5 Asians
2.6 mix/other
1.4 native/Pacific
There was a "dot map" that came out last year based on 2010 census data showing the distribution by "race" (1 dot per person) -
http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap/index.html
There has always been this weird phenomena that I and many other blacks have experienced first hand where some whites will exclaim - "Why do all the black people sit together?". This is probably one of the most ridiculous comments that one can make from a group who so considers themselves "universal" that when they all "sit together" (primarily due to their sheer numbers), then that is considered "normal", but when others do so, something is "wrong". This is what is commonly called a "scotoma".