Causes of SegregationSo, what happened to this integrated living and why did segregation occur in the first place? Several different factors can be attributed to the formation of segregated housing; industrialization, the vast movement of black people from rural areas to cities, and the attitudes this movement created. American industrialization not only affected African Americans; it affected all Americans, but especially immigrants and blacks. This process was much faster in the North than in the South, due to Jim Crow laws which already provided for segregation in daily interactions. However, in the north, industrialization was rapid and life-changing for many people. The transition from production carried out in private homes to large factories significantly increased the demand for labor. At first, immigrants from Europe largely met this demand, but when these workers went on strike, factory owners were desperate to find workers. Where did they find these workers? They found them in the south. Black workers were the ideal workers, in the eyes of factory owners, due to the fact that they had little or no knowledge of industrial conditions and no experience with worker unions (Massey and Denton, p. 28). The Northern factory owners even arranged for all these Southern blacks to be transported directly to the Northern factories on special trains. Since these blacks were used as strikebreakers, this created a lot of animosity towards them from the white workers in the factory. This wasn't the only reason for their negative feelings, but in addition to their animosity towards the job, they simply didn't like them simply because they......in the middle of a paper..... . family and they move, and so on and so on, fourth, it's called "flipping" a neighborhood. Works Cited Massey, Douglas S. and Nancy A. Denton. American apartheid: segregation and the formation of the marginal class. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1993. Print, “News Room.” The 2010 census shows that the black population is most concentrated in the South. United States Census Bureau, nd Web. March 16, 2014. “A Portrait of Black America on the Eve of the 2010 Census.” The Root. Np, and Web. March 16, 2014. “Racial Residential Segregation.” Racial residential segregation. University of Michigan Center for Population Studies, nd Web. March 19. 2014. .