Michael Barone in dailyherald: Understanding the difference between 'segregation' and 'clustering'
Getting words right can clear up a lot of confusion about politics and public policy. Example:"segregate" is a verb that requires a subject."Segregate" is not an impersonal verb, nor is"segregation" a mere accidental result of unrelated outside processes.
One example is Clare Malone, a former FiveThirtyEight analyst and now a New Yorker writer. Back in a March 2016 column on how people with low social connectedness tended to vote for Donald Trump, I quoted her analysis of the crowd at a Trump rally."Something inspirational seems to be happening among the assembled -- a sense of collective identity being discovered," she wrote. The observation stands up well seven years later.
by signing up you agree to our terms of service Malone ignores those differences, however, when she quotes a Census Bureau finding that"a 'typical white' American lives in a neighborhood that's 75 percent white." She then adds,"American suburban life seems to regress to a mean of segregation."
In an article sprinkled with versions of the word"segregation," he takes care to note that white-black and white-Hispanic"segregation indexes" did decline somewhat from 2000 to 2020, and that"white people still live in mostly white neighborhoods." This is not that surprising in a nation where more than 60% are classified as white. But there's little attention to the fact that American"whites" are not, and never have been, a homogenous bloc.
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