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The phrase "were segregated" is correct and usable in written English.
You would generally use it when referring to two or more groups being kept separate or apart from one another, typically due to legal, social, or cultural reasons. For example, "African Americans and whites living in the southern United States were segregated in the early 20th century."
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were segregated
verb
To separate, used especially of social policies that directly or indirectly keep races or ethnic groups apart.
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"Carousels were segregated.
Our schools were segregated.
Hotels were segregated.
Planktonic microorganisms were segregated into latitudinal belts.
Neighborhoods were segregated by race and class.
Boys and girls were segregated, and trained supervisors kept watch.
But they were segregated from white soldiers, except officers.
In 1939 parades down Peachtree Street were segregated.
(According to Meggyesy, even the Cardinals' orgies were segregated).
Anti-lynching laws stalled and worker camps were segregated.
"The want ads in newspapers were segregated by sex.
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