Boston didn't grow racially segregated, it has always been segregated. Boston was predominantly Irish, who were intensely racist and homophobic.

I remember living in an Irish neighborhood in Quincy and an Asian couple was looking for an apartment. The Irish neighbor went out and told them not to look in this neighborhood because 'your kind is not wanted around here'. 'Redlining' wasn't needed, the people policed their neighborhoods.

Things have changed a lot since I lived there in the 1990s. The universities in Boston make it a liberal place, but this just sets up two classes of people; the university intellectuals, and working class people.

I moved away from Boston in the 2000s just so I could live in a more racially diverse place. The West coast simply doesn't have the same history of racism as the East coast does.