Causes of Segregation So, what happened to this integrated living and why did segregation happen? There are a few different factors that can be attributed to the formation of segregated housing; industrialization, the great movement of blacks from rural areas to cities, and the attitudes that this movement created. American industrialization didn't just affect 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 that already provided segregation in everyday interactions. However, in the north, industrialization was happening rapidly and changing the lives of many. The shift from production in private homes to large factories significantly increased the demand for labor. At first immigrants from Europe largely filled this demand, but when these workers went on strike, factory owners became desperate for labor. Where did they find these workers? They found them in the south. Black workers were the ideal workers, in the eyes of factory owners, because they had little to no knowledge of industrial conditions and no experience with unions (Massey and Denton, p. 28). The Northern factory owners even had all these Southern blacks transported directly to the Northern factories on special trains. Since these blacks were used as scabs, this created a lot of animosity towards them from the white workers. This wasn't the only reason for their negative feelings, though, along with their animosity towards the job, they simply didn't like it simply for the fact that we... middle of paper... . family and they move out, and so on and so forth, this is called the “flipping” of a neighborhood. Works Cited Massey, Douglas S., and Nancy A. Denton. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Creation of the Underclass. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1993. Print."Newsroom." The 2010 census shows that the black population has the highest concentration in the South. U.S. Census Bureau, n.d. Web. March 16, 2014. “A Portrait of Black America on the Eve of the 2010 Census.” The Root. Np, nd Web. March 16, 2014. “Residential Racial Segregation.” Residential racial segregation. University of Michigan Center for Population Studies, nd Web. March 19. 2014. .