Arrivals... There Goes the Neighborhood

This quote makes me think a lot out the segregation in the neighborhoods of Chicago.  Now I don't think that anybody was necessarily forced off of their land like the native americans were by the settlers, but I think that because of the arrival of different people into different neighborhoods during a different time changed the neighborhoods of this city to became segregated.  In our city the majority of each of our specific neighborhoods are mainly one race.  I think that this is due to the fact that prior-to and during the civil rights movement, whenever a person of a different race moved to a neighborhood where the majority of residents were white, the white people living around that person would begin to move out of that neighborhood to another primarily white neighborhood.  Since other white people didn't want to move into the houses that were just vacated other people, other races moved into them.  During that time most white people didn't want to move to a neighborhood that was primarily black or hispanic or any other race.  However I also think it goes the other way.  Most African-Americans weren't exactly eager to move into a a primarily white neighborhood where they would be discriminated against.  I think that this cycle of moving in and out of neighborhoods and the refusal to move to certain neighborhoods eventually led up to our entire city being split into sections of different neighborhoods with their own races.