Segregation between places (e.g., city-suburb or suburb-suburb) may be increasing, even as overall metro-neighborhood segregation declines.

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This phenomenon occurs because while individual neighborhoods within metropolitan areas may become more diverse, leading to a decrease in neighborhood-level segregation, the broader patterns of where people live (e.g., which suburbs or city areas they choose) can still reflect and even enhance segregation along various lines such as race, income, or ethnicity. This means that larger scale segregation between different parts of a metro area can increase even as smaller scale segregation decreases.

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