>white suburban fatheads tend to drive.
I think this has come up before:
http://www.frey-demographer.org/reports/billf.pdf
An analysis of race and ethnicity changes in the 102 most populous Metropolitan Statistical Areas, using 2000 census data, indicates that:
Racial and ethnic diversity in suburban areas rose substantially in the last decade. Racial and ethnic minorities make up more than a quarter (27 percent) of suburban populations, up from 19 percent in 1990.
s "Melting pot metros" such as Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington D.C., Houston, and New York have the highest minority suburban populations. By contrast, suburbs in slow_growing northern metropolitan areas have low minority populations.
s Minorities were responsible for the bulk of suburban population gains in a majority of the metro areas studied. Minority population gains were most pronounced in the 35 diverse melting pot metros, and in areas in the South where black and Hispanic populations increased. Many of the melting pot metros had drops in the white suburban popula_ tion in the 1990s.
s Asians are more likely to live in major metropolitan suburbs than in cities. Almost half of Hispanics and 39 percent of blacks in the metropolitan areas surveyed live in the suburbs.
s People who identified themselves as belonging to "two or more races" show different suburbanization patterns than single_race identi_ fiers. For example, 56 percent of people who identified themselves as both white and black live in the suburbs. This number is squarely between the share of whites who live in the suburbs (73 percent) and the share of blacks who live in the suburbs (39 percent).