Methodist ministers in a Deep South State were compared by rural-urban residence for prejudicial attitudes towards Blacks. Previous findings indicated that area of residence was a factor in determining civil rights attitudes. Therefore, it was expected that ministers serving southern rural congregations were more prejudiced than their urban…

This study focuses on the relationship between the home and job location of the household within the metropolitan area. The primary question asked is what are the important factors in explaining the decentralization of the metropolitan population and, secondly, are there behavioral differences between white and minority group households. A model…

This is the 1970 statement of the Washington Education Association's policy on de facto segregation in Washington State. The extent of de facto segregation is reviewed statistically; the major ethnic groups in the State being Negro, Oriental, Mexican, and American Indian. These data are analyzed and discussed in terms of the causes and effects of…

The effect of household and neighborhood crowding on the relations between spouses, those between parents and children, and the relations among children are examined; a sample of urban families residing in conditions ranging from open to highly compressed provided the data for the investigation and multiple regression was used to analyze the…

At the University of Southern California solar-access design research project, Barry Knowles and students have devised a solar envelope: the largest volumetric container over a land parcel that allows solar access to all adjacent neighbors within useful time constraints. (Author/MLF)

Two kinds of research, quantitative investigations and qualitative studies, are needed to assist policy makers in understanding the White flight/school desegregation relationship. At the least, a pluralistic model of research strategies and many more case studies should be undertaken before and after public policy intervention. (Author/KR)

A 1976 Detroit area study indicates that (1) Blacks can afford suburban housing and both Blacks and Whites are knowledgeable about the housing market; (2) Blacks show a preference for mixed neighborhoods; (3) Whites are reluctant to remain in neighborhoods where Blacks are moving in and will not buy homes in integrated areas. (Author/WI)

This paper examines the relationship between the socioeconomic status of selected ethnic groups in metropolitan areas and the extent of foreign stock in the areas, with some control for size and regional classification. (Author/AM)

The potential for population dispersal was evaluated. The study invoked such conditions as interest in living in a small town that is a 30-minute drive and one that is at least 1-hour drive from a large city, a 10 percent loss of family income, and whether or not the individual is a likely migrant. (Author/NQ)

In a secondary analysis of citizenship acquisition among legal Mexican immigrants many individual characteristics which were significant in previous studies did not correlate with an interest in naturalization. Positive correlations were found in these areas: (1) roots in the United States; (2) residential patterns; and (3) barriers and attitudes…

Discusses three articles which document the interaction of physical and social components that stratify cities by race and cites differences in family size, work time, and expectations from a move that affect differences in perceptions and behavior between black suburbanites and white gentrifiers. (Author/LHW)

Two graduate follow-up studies were analyzed for factors predicting likelihood that a graduate would stay in-state or migrate out-of-state. Slightly more than half of the bachelor's degree recipients from the class of 1993-1994 were included in the first sample, and responses were received from 522 graduates. In the second survey, 717 graduates…

This paper uses data from the U.S. decennial censuses and March Supplements to the Current Population Survey of 1995-99 to examine the historic patterns of immigrant settlement within the United States, recent shifts in these patterns, and the extent to which changes are due to the international versus internal migration, focusing particularly on…

Whether information technology (IT) graduates of Illinois colleges exit the state in greater percentages than do other graduates was studied using data from alumni surveys conducted by the public 4-year colleges and universities in Illinois. Data were added from a survey of 575 IT seniors in the 2000-2001 class. Survey data do suggest that IT…

Reports research designed to resolve a methodological inconsistency in previous studies, by examining the interrelations among several indexes of residential segregation and measures of educational, occupational, and income differentiation in American urban areas as of 1960. (JM)