I can say I grew up in the results. The suburbs of Buffalo that I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s were almost all white. We had three blacks in my white collar high school that were treated fairly and in my brothers blue collar town there where none, and some prejudice. The blacks stayed almost exclusively in the inner city. When I visited my mom in 2010 I looked around the suburban Target, and, after living in Houston Texas for a while, I felt that something was tangibly different. It took me a second to realize that everyone in the store was white—customers and workers. The effects of redlining could be visibly seen. In the lower-upper class suburb I now live in in Houston it is always diverse. So I would say it depends on where you live the experience you are having and what you see with your eyes. In Mississippi, I saw blacks and whites living near each other, but all the white students went to a private Christian white school and all the blacks went to a public school that was 98 percent black, according to a couple white students I had as freshmen at the university I taught at who went to the public school and private schools. Segregation there worked differently but worked just as well.