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Veterans Are Less Likely to Live in Segregated Neighborhoods [PSMags.com]

 

Last week, Gallup research reported that living in “white, segregated enclaves” increased one’s chances of supporting Donald Trump. Jonathan Rothwell noted that “Limited interactions with racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, and college graduates may contribute to prejudicial stereotypes.”

While that’s hardly a new insight, the rise in overt racism that Trump has apparently unleashed underlines its importance. When people of various races and backgrounds share the same schools, parks, and soccer leagues, demonization becomes difficult.

So how can integration be encouraged? Well, new researchidentifies one major life experience that inspires whites to live in more diverse neighborhoods: having served in the military.

“We find that young white veterans live in neighborhoods that are significantly more diverse, and have a lower percentage non-Hispanic white than their civilian counterparts,” writes a research team led by University of Connecticut sociologist Mary Fischer. “This is a positive trend that has gone largely unnoticed.”



[For more of this story, written by Tom Jacobs, go to https://psmag.com/veterans-are...2abb23db7#.qjpzozwqe]

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