PATRICK SHARKEY

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Segregation by race has declined gradually since 1970, but separation by income has grown steadily in the same period.
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The migration of the black middle class out of the cities in the wake of the civil rights movement and the deindustrialization of urban economies has left a corroded core, cut off from the social; mainstream and reliant on inadequate federal support.
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After 4 years [in the presidency] the Blacks will love me. I will get 95 percent of the Black vote. I guarantee it!
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This was a classic promise of this presidential candidate. There was no possibility that this would ever happen. Even the first African-American president, Barak Obama, only received 93 percent of the Black vote in his 2012 reelection. No Republican Prudential candidate has obtained even one third of the Black vote since the early 1900s—–never a majority. What was fascinating is that despite promises as ridiculous and impossible as this one, Trump had a core of supporters that didn't seem to mind that he baldly lied, and exaggerated, and made impossible promises in a way that no other politician had in America ever had.

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Federal requirements mandating that local jurisdictions develop plans to address segregation and create more-inclusive communities have been ignored for decades. Zoning laws continue to restrict who can live in exclusive towns and neighborhoods.
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  • Profession: Sociologist
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Patrick Sharkey (born c. 1977) is an American sociologist and criminologist who is currently Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He was formerly Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at New York University, with an affiliation at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.