ABSTRACT
Racial segregation remains a stubborn reality in U.S. metropolitan areas. While residential segregation between blacks and whites has declined over the past few decades, it has changed only slowly, and levels of segregation remain extremely high, especially in the northeastern and midwestern regions of the country. Less segregated than blacks, Hispanics and Asians have experienced levels of segregation that are undiminished since 1980 (in fact, Asians have become slightly more segregated).
