Gary, Ind., Called Most Segregated City

Older cities in the Northeast and Midwest are now the nation’s most racially segregated and will probably stay that way without a Rust Belt revival in construction, says the author of a study on housing patterns.

America’s most segregated city as of 1990 was Gary, Ind., according to the report by Reynolds Farley of the University of Michigan. But city officials were quick to take exception.

The least segregated tended to be in the South and West, led by Jacksonville, N.C.

“The least segregated metropolitan areas are dominated by places where the U.S. armed forces provide the economic base,” Farley observed in an article appearing in the February edition of Population Today.