Why do people self-segregate by race?

[Torie]

Putting aside discrimination and hostility issues, to the extent they still exist out there, folks tend to enjoy living in some concentration with those with whom they have more in common that living with a random sample. However, I just say in the LA area, the level of segregation/self segregation has dramatically decreased over my lifetime. And I see interracial couples - everywhere - in all combinations. The Jews have spread out all over the place too, from their former neighborhoods.

You can see it in the precinct demographics. Almost every precinct has some of each of the four "races," although blacks in general are so thin on the ground outside a few counties that sometimes their numbers get down to single digits.

[Torie]

It's only marginally related, but I saw this chart today and it amused me.

And yet Asian-Americans are far behind Jewish-Americans in terms of the number of famous, super-successful individuals. Doing good in school is great, but real life is more important.

I'm pretty sure Asians have the highest median income.And some Asian groups have a higher median income than Jews. Not sure about "famous" though.

You know what ethnic group in the US has the very highest income don't you sbane? 

[Torie]

The rap on Asians is that they are light in the creativity department. And oddly enough, I have yet to run into a top notch Asian lawyer - yet. Maybe they have a cultural bias against  the social sciences, and think it is all just BS or something. I think this is enough sweeping generalizations for one paragraph.