A white center (the Yale campus) that stays in the middle, surrounded by a very black, crummy, messy outside.
You see, Yale is right smack in the center of New Haven. You have to go to the outskirts to live safely although around the Yale campus it did not used to be too bad except for the occaisional robbery/murder. Property taxes have gone through the roof, making those nice homes in the Amity neighborhood way overtaxed to pay for the welfare scum in the rest of the city.
The racial makeup of the county was 79.40% White, 11.32% Black or African American, 0.25% Native American, 2.33% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 4.51% from other races, and 2.16% from two or more races.
(That statistic is for the COUNTY - not JUST the city. A stroll through New Haven [outside of the Yale campus] would reveal that in an instant.)
That African American 11.32% resides mostly within the city of New Haven itself in neighborhoods that you do not traverse at night. A walk throug parts of Fair Haven, Newhallville, near St. Raphael's hospital at night is probably as reckless as a similar walk through Baghdad or Kabul...
New Haven had that slummy scummy rep even 30 years ago
The campus sounds alot like Atlantic city. I went there a few years back. I was rather surprised that it was an island surrounded by a sea of slums. But , even dilapidated, you could get a sense of how beautiful it must have been ( a long long time ago ). I just don’t get it. If I moved into a victorian mansion, the first thing I would do is find a way to fix it up.