The millions of Hispanic immigrants to the USA in the 1990s are spreading throughout the country, but they are living in increasingly segregated neighborhoods in cities where they are the largest minority. Census Bureau population numbers show that Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites might mingle in schools, at work and in stores, but they're less likely to go home to the same neighborhoods. It's not 'our' street. The trend is especially significant now that Hispanics are spreading out from traditional immigrant gateway cities.
Sociologists say such residential segregation can last for generations.
It may take until 2050 before we see a serious reversal. Such disproportion runs deep in metropolitan areas, where Hispanics became the largest minority group in the 1990s, often surpassing blacks. Logan says that so far, that's happened in 16 metros. In 11 of these metros, Hispanics are more segregated from whites now than they were in 1990. But typically, Hispanic segregation reduces over time much more so than we've seen with blacks.