Many Americans Have No Friends Outside of their Race. Why is that?

Apparently a poll  said that forty percent of Whites and twenty five percent of non whites have no close friends outside of their race.  I really don't know what to think about this. Is this an attempt to race bait, or pit the non Whites against the Whites? I don't know.  However, I can tell you that I got to experience both worlds. I used to live on the south side of Saint Louis (Mc Ree and Tower Grove to be exact, for those who want to question the credentials, lol) when I was a kid, the neighborhood and schools I went to were very diverse. I had friends and neighbors of many different races and cultures.  Later I moved more west, I lived in an all black neighborhood and went to two all  black schools. In high school,  I was a part of the deseg program, and went to school with everybody again. Now I live out of state, and have friends of different races.  Here's the thing that wasn't discussed in the article:

Some people choose who they want to be associated with. Some are willing to 'self segregate'. I guess it depends on the person and their experiences. When I was in high school, this was seen in the Commons (cafeteria) area. All of the Black people were on one side and all of the White people had the areas they chose. There were various cliques as well, so all of the "outsiders" just kind of sat around the majority of kids like hyenas waiting for the pack of lions to leave so they can have the remains of the carcass.  Unfortunately, I fit in none of the cliques, but I did notice what was going on. I was even asked, "Why all of the Black people sit together? I didn't have an answer since I told the person that I didn't fit anywhere, nor did I feel welcome in any area, so I was one of the hyenas so to speak. In my senior year, I sat in the senior area with all of the Blacks in my graduating class. I had a few non black friends, but we weren't really close. It wasn't because they were non Black, it was because I was a very shy teenager with social anxiety issues which made it very very hard to fully open up to people in general.

However I also think in some instances, people don't have many friends of different races because there may be some regional differences, or how they were raised. For example, there are some areas where very few non White people exist. Therefore, it decreases the likely hood of a White person becoming friends with a non white person. The same goes with small towns with stationary populations. If everyone in a small town grew up together, and the town wasn't very diverse, chances are high that the newcomer will not be welcomed.  If the outsider is lucky, they may make school friends with some or one of the local kids assuming the parents allow it.  If a person was raised to not mingle with people who don't look like them, then it is what is regardless of what race they belonged to.

This sort of thing reminds me of my experiences in Sociology class when I was in college, which can be found in the Black on Black Crime vs Crime blog I wrote in July. That being said, they need to Get the Fuck outta here with that mess, and here's why:

Why did they have to create this poll? What was the purpose of it?  Why did they even need to ask? Was it really that hard to figure out? I think the average Joe, Jane, Iesha, Darius, Carlos, Maria, etc would have been able to figure out why many Americans don't have close friends outside of their race. It's common sense really. Maybe I think too much and it really isn't common sense. Maybe we need a team of sociology professors to create a poll so they can analyze this because they are the only ones who can tell us what we need to know regarding this topic, I mean, they are the experts after all,right?  Maybe we are incapable of putting on our thinking caps to the point where we are unable to ask ourselves "Why" and we don't have enough brain cells to rub together in order to independently come to a conclusion when it comes to anything in particular.  I don't know. I mean, somebody had to gather professors together in order to find this out, and I figured it out just like that?

Really tho?! Really?