A new study finds that racial segregation on Long Island, NY, with its 109 towns, villages, and cities, is beaten only by a few large, Midwestern cities.
"The unspoken agenda of most little-box councils, or most little-box school boards, is 'to keep our town, or our schools, just the way they are for people just like us,' whoever us happens to be," said Mr. Rusk, a former mayor of Albuquerque. "The result is that Long Island is highly divided by race and ethnicity. For black residents, Long Island is the most segregated suburb in America."
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