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Since 1968, black & Latino schools enroll [up arrow] 5.8 million, wh [down arrow] 5.6 million
Latino pop. 2 million in '68 to 6.9 in 1998, incr of 245%. In
1968, 3 times as many blacks as Latinos; in '98 7 Latinos for every
8 blacks; soon will be more Latinos than blacks. Schools will be first major
institution to experience non-white majorities. 1968 - 17 whites for every Latino;
1998-4.

Black segregation in South @18
% blacks in major white schools in South 1954
33.1 1960 2.3% in 1964
1970
peak (43.5) 1988
32.7 1998
30.2 2001

South "remains the only region in which whites typically attend schools
with significant number of blacks."
South black student 32,700 times more likely to be in a white majority.
Schools then in '54 & 14 times then in '64.

"White students are by far the most segregated in schools dominated by their
own group." @ 36 (80% white) (Asians the least)

1998-98: only 17% of white schools (90% and white) had more than 50% low income
enrollments; 88% of minority school did. "Segregated minority schools
had concentrated poverty nine times out of ten." @38