Consider a town with three neighborhoods, Alpha, Beta, and Gamma. The neighborhoods have the following racial make-up:
White Minority
Alpha 0 1000
Beta 500 500
Gamma 1000 0
A. What is the minority percentage in the town?
B. What is the number of residents that would have to be "shifted" for each neighborhood to have the same racial composition?
C. Calculate dissimilarity index D. How does it relate to the answer to question b?
D. How does residential segregation relate to the "flight from blight" hypothesis of urban decentralization?