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While population growth has been consistently tied to decreasing racial segregation at the metropolitan level in the United States, little work has been done to relate small-scale changes in population size to integration. We address this question through a novel technique that tracks population changes by race and ethnicity for comparable geographies in both 2000 and 2010. Using the Theil index, we analyze the fifty most populous metropolitan statistical areas in 2010 for changes in multigroup segregation. We classify local areas by their net population change between 2000 and 2010 using a unique unit of analysis based on aggregating census blocks. We find strong evidence that growing parts of rapidly growing metropolitan areas of the United States are crucial to understanding regional differences in segregation that have emerged in past decades. Multigroup segregation declined the most in growing parts of growing metropolitan areas. Comparatively, growing parts of shrinking or stagnant metropolitan areas were less diverse and had smaller declines in segregation. We also find that local areas with shrinking populations had disproportionately high minority representation in 2000 before population loss took place. We conclude that the regional context of population growth or decline has important consequences for the residential mixing of racial groups.
Author(s): Bellman B, Spielman SE, Franklin RS
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: International Regional Science Review
Year: 2018
Volume: 41
Issue: 2
Pages: 233-255
Print publication date: 01/03/2018
Online publication date: 09/09/2016
Acceptance date: 29/08/2016
ISSN (print): 0160-0176
ISSN (electronic): 1552-6925
Publisher: Sage
URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0160017616665669
DOI: 10.1177/0160017616665669
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