It's rather odd that the both sides of this income fracture are primarily Liberal in nature.

Thus it's odd that the white liberal areas are growing richer and richer while the minority run areas are getting poorer and poorer, as Ley's study shows.

I thought the opposite was the effect favoured by Liberals.

Go to metro Vancouver though and you will find that the mainly caucasian Liberal areas like the blocks around West 4th are as ghettoized as the Asian neighbourhoods in Richmond. Bring in minorities into those white run Liberal areas and there will probably be white flight. The caucasians in Liberal West 4th and surroundings are the kind who would hop over to the other sidewalk if they saw an aboriginal or a black walking towards them.

Puzzling indeed.