Do we really want people only to live among their own kind?

[AngryAmish]

This is kinda about the hipster thing, but the view has been expressed that young, college educated white people should live in places where no minority or working class people live, lest they drive up rents.

Would the converse be the same for black people? Should they only stay amongst "their kind" and not move to leafy suburbs with good schools that don't have a tradition of being integrated? Or maybe, just maybe, should people be allowed to live where they want?

The subject of gentrification is a weird one. White people who live in the suburbs are accused of being afraid of the city and not caring about minorities. White people who move into majority minority areas are called gentrifiers who drive up rents.

In the last few decades the inner cities have become much nicer places to live for a host of reasons. I don't think red lining areas does anyone any good.