In a report on trends between 1980 and 2000, the bureau said Hispanics were the next most segregated group, followed by Asians, American Indians and Alaska natives.
The most segregated religious groups in England and Wales are people of the Jewish and Sikh faiths, not Muslims as is often supposed; while the levels of geographical isolation of people of Catholic faith in Scotland exceed those of any minority religious or ethnic group in England.
The problem is abetted by a pattern of residential segregation in New York City that researchers say has been almost as severe for Puerto Ricans as for blacks, historically the most segregated demographic group in the city.
I live in New Jersey, the nation's fifth most segregated state for blacks and the fourth most segregated for Latinos.
But analysis based on "isolation," or the tendency for single neighborhoods to be dominated by one racial group, and "dissimiliarity," the evenness with which two racial groups are distributed, finds Chicago remains the most segregated city in the U.S. ten years later.
In the meantime, Chicago continues to be the most racially segregated city in our republic, with the most segregated schools.
New York, according to the 2000 census, is one of the most segregated cities in the nation, with few neighborhoods having balanced mixtures of races and ethnic groups.
"And here we are, with the most compassionate group of activists on the planet, and still we live in the most segregated place on the planet — Hollywood".
If Sunday remains the most segregated day in the South, funerals remain the most segregated business.
The most segregated schools are now in the north-east.
