Nicole had argued that it was essential for the colonists to live in small, integrated neighborhoods to develop any real appreciation of racial and cultural differences.

We're the most integrated neighborhood in the universe, probably.

The notion was that creating integrated neighborhoods would lead to integrated schools.

In general, the researchers said, blacks, Hispanics and Asians lived in more integrated neighborhoods than did whites.

The May 1948 flood which destroyed Vanport eliminated the only integrated neighborhood, and an influx of blacks into the northeast quadrant of the city continued.

But the goal of stable, integrated neighborhoods remains elusive, 31 years after passage of the Fair Housing Act.

"It's a beautiful, peaceful, integrated neighborhood," he said.

The ideal is an integrated neighborhood, and we have that now.

The 5th Ward is home to the University of Chicago and Hyde Park, for years one of the rare integrated neighborhoods in the city.

But the Queens College analysis found that higher income for blacks did not necessarily mean that they had access to a more integrated neighborhood.