Modern-Day Racial Segregation in the United States of America during the Trump Administration

Abstract

Racial Segregation is considered a relatively obsolete issue in many people's perspective. But in reality, it is an issue that is still ongoing in the United States today. In the era of President Trump’s administration, a new rule was issued to overrule the previous administration’s act that strengthened the Fair Housing Act of 1968. This caused the improvement of racially-motivated social justice in the US to stagnate. Although housing policies may be the primary focus of the problem of racial segregation, a complex network of other factors also contribute to this problem. The six measurements offered by the Theory of Mechanisms of Spatial Mismatch comprise these characteristics, and were utilized to formulate the study question: How did the factors of Spatial Mismatch Theory intersect to influence patterns of racial segregation in the United States during the Trump administration? The results of the analysis conducted based on these variables met all of the criteria, showing that there was modern-day racial segregation in the US during the Trump Administration.