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November 14, 2011 The divide between the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’
is not just a matter of bank accounts. More and more it
determines where you live. We’ve all heard about racial
segregation. Whites live one place. Blacks live in another.
There are all kinds of ethnic neighborhoods. But in the last 40
years, racial-ethnic segregation has moderated somewhat--
although it is still high. But socioeconomic segregation,
segregation by class, is on the rise. “Well, the biggest change
is, of course, the shift in the income distribution. We’ve
become a much more unequal society in the past three decades,"
said Douglas Massey, a Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs
at Princeton. He was the lead author of a study about this trend
toward class segregation which was published in the ANNALS of
the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He said
that in the past few years, you can really see the shift as
people lose their homes to foreclosure and hav