American neighborhoods continue to be segregated and gains toward integration have come to a virtual standstill this decade according to a report released by Brown University sociologist John Logan and his co-author, Florida State University sociologist Brian Stults.  The report is based on comprehensive nationwide American Community Survey data recently released by the Census Bureau and marks the launch of Brown University’s US2010 project, a program that researches and analyzes changes in American society.  Among the study’s major findings is that the average white non-Hispanic person lives in a neighborhood very different from that of the average African-American, Hispanic or Asian, although the average white person’s neighborhood is now 77 percent white as compared to 88 percent in 1980.  Using an index of dissimilarity, with zero meaning that every group is proportionately represented in every neighborhood in a metro area and 100 meaning complete racial segregation,  African-Americans continue to be the most segregated from whites (62.7 on the index) followed by Hispanics (50) and then Asians (45.9).  Integration for African-Americans and Hispanics has greatly slowed over the last decade and segregation has risen for Asians such that their level of segregation is approaching that of Hispanics.  Howard University demographer Roderick Harrison opined in a December 14 USA today article that the recession might very well send segregation rates up for blacks who are being disproportionately negatively affected by unemployment and other aspects of the recession.  In the same article, Logan, who professed surprise at the result of his study, said that the cost of residential segregation for non-whites is living in neighborhoods with fewer resources than whites.