12. Midland Park, New Jersey Racial Demographics 64.10% N/G White persons not Hispanic 15.10% 3.69% Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin 1.30% 0.71% Persons reporting two or more races 0.10% 0.01% Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 14.30% 2.22% Asian persons 0.30% 0.06% American Indian and Alaska Native persons 6.10% 0.43% Black persons 77.80% 95.81% White persons Bergen County Midland Park New Jersey Racial Demographics
This hypothesis is the one typically discussed in the suburbanization literature, and focuses on racial segregation as a function of the extent to which blacks and other nonwhites could not buy suburban homes through discrimination by government programs and “redlining” by lending institutions and Realtors.
In her article, “Was Postwar Suburbanization "White Flight"? Evidence from the Black Migration,” Leah Platt Bouston discusses the relationship between black arrivals and white departures which provides suggestive evidence of "white flight," a process by which white households left central cities to avoid living in racially diverse neighborhoods or jurisdictions.
