Racial and Ethnic Diversity Goes Local: Charting Change in American Communities Over Three Decades

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AUTHORS
Barrett A. Lee, Pennsylvania State University
John Iceland, Pennsylvania State University
Gregory Sharp, Pennsylvania State University

PUBLICATION DATE
2012

PUBLISHED IN
Working Paper

ABSTRACT
Increasing diversity has long been apparent at the national level and in our nation's largest metropolitan gateways. Since 1980 over nine-tenths of all cities, suburbs, and small towns have become more diverse. And rural communities are following the lead of their urban counterparts. Places where whites make up 90% or more of the population were two-thirds of the total three decades ago; now they are down to only one-third.

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