Where the White People Live
10th June 2015
Voice of the Crust The Atlantic burnishes it’s hipster credentials with this hand-wringer about ‘segregation’.
Racially concentrated areas of affluence, by the researchers’ definition, are census tracts where 90 percent or more of the population is white and the median income is at least four times the federal poverty level, adjusted for the cost of living in each city. Racially concentrated areas of poverty, by contrast, are census tracts where more than 50 percent of the population is non-white, and more than 40 percent live in poverty.
Note that ‘white’ = ‘affluent’ and ‘black’ = ‘in poverty’ by the researchers’ definition. Not hard to find the facts you like when you stack the deck before you start.
Oh … the writer, Alana Semuels, is a Harvard graduate — and, judging by her picture, white. Of course.