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Abstract
Our research examines the dynamics of economic segregation in metropolitan Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Columbus during the period 1970-2000 through comparison of (1) Dissimilarity Index and General Spatial Segregation Index values, (2) concentration patterns of the rich and poor, and (3) mapped class distributions. Our results corroborate other studies that observed rising economic segregation from 1970 to 1990, followed by a substantial decline in the 1990s to approximately 1970 levels. We find the rich and the poor moderately segregated from the nonrich and the nonpoor, while highly segregated from each other. The segregation manifests itself in growing concentrations of the poor in the central cities and emigration of the middle class and the wealthy to the suburbs and beyond. When the poor population is disaggregated by race, our results indicate the highest level of segregation continues to be experienced by poor Blacks.
