Most Americans now live in mixed-race neighborhoods

 I've had this piece, this analysis, really from the Washington Post open in a tab for a week now, waiting to be able to do something with it, because I think it's really important to a lot of things about how we live as Americans, education among them.

(Note, incidentally, that I've used a gift link for that; you don't need a subscription to the Washington Post to read it.)

The evaluation the Post did is based on this: 

When we say neighborhoods, we mean census tracts, which typically hold about 3,800 people. We created our tract data by rolling up even smaller block-level estimates to fit 2020 census tract boundaries, so that we could compare individual neighborhoods over time — something that’s not usually possible given the constantly shifting outlines of official census tracts.

 And they found this: 

Back in 1990, 78 percent of White people lived in predominantly White neighborhoods, where at least 4 of every 5 people were also White. In the 2020 Census, that’s plunged to 44 percent.

The piece has some great visuals on this--charts, maps, other things to play with--so I really urge you to take a look. 

I keep hoping to see someone take this up with the election results from Tuesday--if you see something, let me know?--because I'd be really interested if this had an impact both on attitude and access. It would seem to me that this make differences in both counts.

From an education perspective, of course, most children attend schools based on where they live. If where they live is more integrated, that makes a difference in the make-up of their schools. That's pretty huge.

From a Massachusetts perspective, we're tracking with the trend as a state: 

And a new 2020 majority in mixed neighborhoods is true both of what's nationally seen as metro Boston and the metro Worcester/Hartford thing. 
HOWEVER, if you zoom in on the map showing in which decade each county passed "most residents living in mixed race neighborhoods," and note that "never" is grey:

...it really depends where in Massachusetts you are. 
Anyway, neat stuff! Go look!