THE U.S. IS AN INCREASINGLY DIVERSE nation, but this obscures a troubling trend: its cities are more segregated now than they were 30 years ago.
More than 80% of large metropolitan areas across the U.S. were more segregated in 2019 than in 1990, according to an analysis released June 21 by the Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. Detroit is the most segregated city, followed by Hialeah, Fla., and then Newark, N.J., Chicago and Milwaukee, the report says. Only two of 113 cities with populations of 200,000 or more qualified as integrated: Colorado Springs and Port St. Lucie, Fla.
While the U.S. has become more diverse over time, this has obscured the persistence of segregation, the report finds. Metropolitan areas aren’t all-white, all-Black or all-Latino,…