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The desire of many whites to avoid having their children attend integrated schools has been a factor in white flight to the suburbs.

A 2007 study in San Francisco showed that groups of homeowners of all races tended to self-segregate in order to be with people of the same education level and race.

By 1990, the legal barriers enforcing segregation had been mostly replaced by decentralized racism, where whites pay more than blacks to live in predominantly white areas.

Today, many whites are willing, and are able, to pay a premium to live in a predominantly white neighborhood.

Equivalent housing in white areas commands a higher rent.

By bidding up the price of housing, many white neighborhoods effectively shut out blacks, because blacks are unwilling, or unable, to pay the premium to buy entry into these expensive neighborhoods.

Conversely, equivalent housing in black neighborhoods is far more affordable to those who are unable or unwilling to pay a premium to live in white neighborhoods.

Through the 1990s, residential segregation remained at its extreme and has been called " hypersegregation " by some sociologists or " American Apartheid "