More Diversity in the Suburbs

By artappraiser on Mon, 07/23/2012 - 8:36pm |

By Rebecca Berg, Economix blog @ nytimes.com, July 23, 2012

America’s suburbs are becoming more diverse, but tenuously so, a study has found.

The study, conducted by Myron Orfield and Thomas Luce at the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity at the University of Minnesota Law School and released Friday, determined that the number of racially diverse suburbs increased by 37 percent between 2000 and 2010, and diverse suburbs are growing more quickly than majority-white suburbs.

The findings, which draw on data from the nation’s 50 largest metropolitan areas, also underscore shifting demographic trends, which indicate that minority groups will be in the majority in only a few decades [....]

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