Nice, storebought. And how, in your disconnected mind, are the states of New York and New Jersey actively preventing black people from moving into expensive neighborhoods? Keep in mind the black population of New Jersey is only 15% and this is the income map of the state:
Notice that there are 15 or so municipalities in North Jersey with per capita incomes below $20,000. Also note that in super-white South Jersey, a vast majority of municipalities have per capita incomes of less than $30,000.
Actually, let's look at Franklin Township, in my home Somerset County. It has a black population reaching 26% (11% above the state average and 14% above the nation average) at the same time as having a per capita income over $30,000 and a top-notch school system. Franklin is also the most populated municipality in Somerset County, which is the 6th wealthiest county in the nation. I think blacks in super-rich Somerset County, of which there are many, are allowed access to the same excellent education as whites, Asians, and Hispanics.
In reality, there are few places in North Jersey with super-majorities in respectively failing or excelling school districts.
I said nothing about
de jure segregation, fezzy. Or about the inability of blacks to attend public schools at any case, like this is 1955 or anything so ridiculous. So don't bring that nonsense out.
I do maintain, that private realtors in NYC suburbia practice
steering -- if blacks move into the area, then they are directed
en masse into one or a few places so that the others can remain as white as possible.
In fact, lets take a look at Somerset Co NJ.
Here are the data for the larger municipalities, listed only by %White, %Black, since other races do not find nearly the level of constraint in the housing market that blacks do. I only list the larger townships to rule out municipalities with fewer than 1000 people, which tend to be millionaires' hideaways in north Jersey:
Montgomery T: 84% 2%
Hillsborough T: 85 % 3.7%
Franklin T: 55% 25% (67,000)Bridgewater T: 83 % 2.%
Branchburg T: 90% 1.95%
Bernards T: %89 1.44%
Now, granted most of the places on that list (and most of the ones I excluded) are the homes of executives with median incomes well over 100K. But it is interesting that one township in Somerset with an average income that middle-class black NJites can well attain has the following stats:
Bedminster T: 90 1.75 (71,000)
Not to mention, New Jerseyites and New Yorkers from the suburbs have a tendency to overestimate the extent of racial integration of their own neighborhoods.