The most segregated city in the US is Chicago. My own family lived on the edge of the White vs Black line that developed as the border of the City of Chicago and the (urban) suburb of Oak Park.
Blacks were not given mortgages to live in white neighbourhoods, in a big bank establishment practice called red-lining. They drew red lines on maps.
This meant that blacks were excluded to a great extent from joining the middle class, whose wealth is wrapped up in home ownership. Poor black neighbourhoods did not help to grow the wealth of home owners much.
On all levels, at work, in school, in church, and in graveyards, the North remains an apartheid system.
Whites fled to the suburbs and sucked the tax revenue out of the cities. The inner city economies and schools suffered dramatically.
If you attend a orchestral event, the vast majority of the people in the orchestra and in the audience will be white, middle class people.
Since blacks and Hispanics don’t get the same opportunity of a good education as white people from the suburbs, the vast majority of the students at state universities are white.
So, the vast majority of doctors, lawyers, professors, teachers, and corporate executives are white, and they live in the best homes in the nicest suburbs, with the best schools.
Asians are not excluded from this system in the same way that blacks and Hispanics are, but Asian doctors and dentists make up a second tier of the medical profession in America, to a great extent, providing services to the poor, making less money, and living in less expensive homes than the White doctors and dentists.
Exceptions to this general rule abound, but the reality of the poverty of three million black people on the South Side of Chicago can not be ignored. This is an employment desert.
This year, in about two months, there have been over forty shootings of people who were just driving through the black neighbourhoods on the expressway (the Dan Ryan Expressway).
Black and Hispanic kill hundreds of innocent people in the city of Chicago each year, as they fight over drug-selling turf.
The big trend this year is car jackings by black and Hispanic teens and pre-teens, even out in the suburbs.
Black and Hispanics make up a disproportionately higher percentage of the population of our jails and penitentiaries.
This all stems from a lack of funding for schools in the inner city, and chaotic home lives for inner city kids who live in poverty.
Trump created more jobs and this also meant more jobs for blacks and Hispanics in the city of Chicago.