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How we organize community and housing tells a great deal about the interactions and exchanges between the people who live in them. Social trends are visible in housing before they are elsewhere. So, this is a good institution to study the effects of racism. According to Rugh, the 240 “low segregation-high education” counties in the United States represent the nation’s most racially integrated and well-educated Americans. On average, they are majority-White, and closely reflect the nation’s racial composition. These counties rejected Trump in 2016 and more so in 2020. Other counties that are quickly growing economically and becoming better educated and more racially integrated also rejected Trump. Rugh suggests that another trend is emerging as well. There is new evidence that home values appreciate faster in stably integrated and diverse neighborhoods than in overwhelmingly White communities. Integrated spaces are now valued more highly than all-White spaces. These trends have major implications for how White Americans will respond to the nation’s changing demographics and to the continuing social cost of maintaining racial segregation.
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Rugh, J.S. (2021). Housing: From Segregation to Isolation—White Americans in the Age of Trump. In: Austin, D.W., Bowser, B.P. (eds) Impacts of Racism on White Americans In the Age of Trump. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75232-3_3
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