New York City grew more ethnically diverse and less racially segregated between 2010 and 2020, according to a new CUNY report for the city’s Districting Commission.
Long-established ethnic groups that have historically defined New York City’s political and cultural landscape are shrinking, according to the findings.
On a smaller scale, many neighborhoods are becoming more racially diverse, shifting the city’s racial geography, the report found.
And it’s introduced new immigrant-origin ethnic groups within all of the basic racial categories that we typically use.
So the nature of what it means to be white or Black or Latino or Asian has been changing quite substantially.
The report focuses on “communities of interest,” an inexact term that is, nonetheless, typically relevant in the creation of new voting maps.
The rise of Asian New Yorkers Across the board, the city’s racial groups have grown more ethnically diverse, researchers found. »
