Ethnoracial Diversity across the Rural-Urban Continuum

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science - Tập 672 Số 1 - Trang 26-45 - 2017
Barrett A. Lee1, Gregory Sharp2
1Department of Sociology and Population Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University.
2Department of Sociology, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Tóm tắt

Scholarship and popular opinion regard cities as more racially and ethnically diverse than rural communities. However, recent trends hint at the possibility of less distinctive diversity profiles on either side of the metro-nonmetro divide. To explore this, we compare the magnitude and structure of ethnoracial diversity in more than 27,000 census-defined places arrayed across ten different types of county contexts that spanned the rural-urban continuum in 2010. Even as average residents’ exposure to diversity steadily declines as contexts become more rural and remote, place-based (unweighted) results show an uneven pattern of diversity across most of the continuum. Multivariate analysis supports the unevenness scenario: when place characteristics are taken into account, many of the associations between type of context and diversity weaken to the point of nonsignificance. Taken together, these findings suggest a blurring of rural-urban boundaries with respect to community ethnoracial composition.

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Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Tập 672 Số 1

26-45

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