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where blacks did not live at random among them- selves. Landmark scholarly studies by E. Franklin Fra- zier in the 1930s showed in detail how different neigh- borhoods within the ghet- toes had people of different educational and income levels, with different male\ female ratios and different ways of life living in differ- ent places. There was nothing ran-
dom about it. Within Chi- cago’s black communi- ty, the delinquency rate ranged from more than 40 percent in some black neighborhoods to less than 2 percent in other black neighborhoods. People sort themselves out. None of this was peculiar
to blacks or Jews, or to the United States. When emi- grants from Scotland went to Australia, the Scottish highlanders settled sepa- rately from the Scottish lowlanders. So did emi- grants from northern Italy and southern Italy. Separate residential pat-
terns that are visible to the naked eye, when the people are black and white, are also pervasive among peo- ple who physically all look alike. Charles Murray’s eye-opening new book, “Coming Apart,” shows in detail how different seg- ments of the white Ameri- can population not only live separately from each other but have very dif- ferent ways of life -- and are growing increasingly remote from one another in beliefs and behavior. None of this matters to
politicians and ideologues who are hell-bent to mix and match people accord- ing to their own preconcep- tions. Moreover, like many things that the government does, it does residential integration more crude- ly than when people sort themselves out. Back in the days when E.
Franklin Frazier was doing his scholarly studies of the composition and expan- sion of black ghettoes, he found the most educated and cultured elements of the black communities living on the periphery of these communities.
It was these kinds of peo-
ple who typically led the expansion of the black community into the sur- rounding white communi- ties. By contrast, govern- ment programs often take dysfunctional families from high crime ghetto neigh- borhoods and put them down in the midst of mid- dle-class neighborhoods by subsidizing their housing. Whether these middle-
class neighborhoods are already either predomi- nantly black or predomi- nantly white, the residents are often outraged at the increased crime and other behavior problems inflicted on them by politicians and bureaucrats. But their complaints
usually fall on deaf ears. People convinced of their own superior wisdom and virtue have no time to spare for what other people want, whether in housing or health care or a whole range of other things.
Thomas Sowell is a senior
fellow at the Hoover Institu- tion, Stanford University, Stan- ford, CA 94305. His website is
www.tsowell.com.
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