As a result of segregated residential patterns and years of white flight to private schools, public-school districts in major cities - New York, Washington, Baltimore, Detroit, Philadelphia and Atlanta, among others- are disproportionately black.

• 由于住房分开和多年来白人的孩子纷纷到私立学校上学，纽约、华盛顿、巴尔的摩、底特律、费城和亚特兰大等大城市的公立学校多数是黑人学生。