![]() ![]() ![]() However, as California pursues - at least on paper - more integration in housing, it seems to be encouraging more segregation in political representation through a concept called “community of interest” or COI. The outcome of California’s housing war remains in doubt. But isn’t the state trying to make its housing patterns more inclusive? Okay, so California is not the exemplar of integration it often pretends to be. The San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles area, which also is somewhat conservative politically, is one of only two regions in the nation deemed to be highly integrated, the other being Colorado Springs, which is a Republican bastion. Of the 11 California regions on the report’s “high segregation” list, only two, Bakersfield (37th) and Fresno (72nd), hew to the right politically. Other California areas with high levels of segregation include San Francisco-Oakland (25th), San Diego (38th), San Jose (45th) and Sacramento (82nd). The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana metropolitan area, the study found, is the nation’s sixth most segregated region of 200,000 residents or more. Oddly, too, California’s segregation tends to be highest in areas most likely to lean to the left politically. In fact, however, as a new study from UC Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging Institute reveals, most California metropolitan areas have high levels of racial segregation in housing and it has become more pronounced over the last two decades. Deeply blue California’s top political figures, from the governor downward, portray the state as a model of multicultural integration. ![]()
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