People would say, "You know, Rich, it's nature. Birds of a feather flock together." I have to point out to them that, no, that's not the case..

The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there is still segreg….

Louisville, Colorado, which was just voted by CNN and Money magazine as the best place to live, is a veritable Whitopia that is unaffected by the hou….

I was surprised by how forces in the community could mobilize against a community changing. There were many examples of this. In St. George, members ….

Problem with segregation isn't that people can't live in peaceful harmony singing "Kumbaya" - although that wouldn't be bad. The problem is that many….

There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think that impoveri….

With growing and intermixed minority populations, our democracy can not work optimally unless all people are integrated as full and equal members, an….

I had been hearing on-the-ground buzz that white folks were moving to places like Bend, Oregon, and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and St. George, Utah. That ….

By 2042, whites will no longer be the American majority..

I concede that segregation can allay social tensions immediately, but it further debilitates us in the long run..

I hope we have American-topias..

Of course, there isn't really a black population in Idaho or Utah..

It's the texture of New York that people miss by filming elsewhere. There are layers and layers of character - even in the pavement - that you can't ….

I always say that you should remake flops, not hits..

The reason our country looks the way it does is through social engineering that distinctly benefits suburban communities, exurban communities, and of….

In the pioneer West Whitopias, immigration tended to be the dominant social and racial issue. In Forsyth County, Georgia, immigration is still an iss….

If I were an immigrant Latino not born in the US, I could not have written Searching for Whitopia: An Improbably Journey to the Heart of America book….

I don't want to live in a monoculture of any kind. I don't want to live in a wealthy monoculture, a black monoculture. I don't want to live in an eli….

When well-qualified, upper middle-class blacks or Latinos or Asians move to predominantly white neighborhoods, there's what's called the tipping poin….