DEMOGRAPHICS

Report Shines Light on Shifting Metropolitan Diversity Over 10 Years

By National Journal Staff

Updated: December 14, 2012 | 12:24 p.m.
September 13, 2012 | 11:30 a.m.

Unprecedented demographic shifts have fundamentally changed many neighborhoods in the country’s 50 largest metro areas, according to a report released in July by the University of Minnesota’s Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity. Many suburbs that were once the bastions of homogeneous whiteness are becoming more diverse at breakneck speed.

Read the July National Journal story, "Suburbs Diversify but Many Areas Still Segregated, Report Says," and check back regularly as The Next America releases maps for a dozen major U.S. cities that compare demographic shifts over a 10-year span.

 

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Virtually every issue the United States contends with promises to be affected by deep currents of change illuminated by demographic shifts. With The Next America, National Journal unveils an unprecedented effort to explore the significant political, economic and social impact of profound racial and cultural changes.

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The Story That Started It All

In 2010, Ronald Brownstein wrote The Gray and the Brown: A Generational Mismatch about America’s shift to an older, more ethnically diverse population and how these changes affect us as a nation.