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  • Demography
  • Urban Studies

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  • Traditional views posit greater racial and ethnic diversity in cities compared to rural areas.
  • Recent trends suggest a potential convergence in diversity profiles across the metro-nonmetro divide.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare the magnitude and structure of ethnoracial diversity in 2010 across diverse county contexts.
  • To investigate the rural-urban continuum's influence on community ethnoracial composition.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of ethnoracial diversity for over 27,000 census-defined places in 2010.
  • Comparison across 10 county context types spanning the rural-urban continuum.
  • Multivariate analysis controlling for place-specific characteristics.

Main Results:

  • Average resident exposure to diversity declines with increasing rurality.
  • Place-based diversity patterns show unevenness across the rural-urban continuum.
  • Multivariate analysis indicates that many context-diversity associations weaken significantly when place characteristics are considered.

Conclusions:

  • Findings suggest a blurring of traditional rural-urban boundaries regarding ethnoracial composition.
  • The distinctiveness of diversity profiles between urban and rural areas is diminishing.
  • Place-specific factors play a crucial role in shaping community diversity, often overriding broad rural-urban distinctions.