Daniel T. Lichter, Cornell University
Domenico Parisi, Mississippi State University
Michael Taquino, Mississippi State University
This paper examines patterns of racial and ethnic segregation in new immigrant destinations over the 1990-2010 period using data from the 1990, 2000, and 2010 decennial censuses. Our goal is to document changing patterns of Hispanic segregation from whites and blacks in rural places that have experienced exceptionally rapid increases in the Hispanic populations over the past two decade. Specifically, using block-level data, we highlight changing patterns of micro-segregation within (1) the census tracts of places, (2) within the legal boundaries of places, and (2) within counties. A primary goal is to identify place-specific processes of segregation at a fine level of spatial granularity. Our place-based analyses are largely descriptive, but supplemented with place-based multivariate models of Hispanic-white and Hispanic-Black segregation. Our analyses address theoretical questions about whether Hispanics are integrating with the native population, and whether recent demographic and economic processes have eroded or perpetuated ethnoracial boundaries in rural areas.
Trans-Atlantic Rural Research Network (TARRN) 