REPLY TO SPILERMAN AND MILLER.

In this article the author presents his comments on the views given by Seymour Spilerman and Richard E. Miller about his article. The objections that Spilerman and Miller (S&M) raise in their comment are partly the result of misreadings of the Ross M. Stolzenbergs and Ronald D'Amico paper and partly the result of disagreement over methodological and theoretical issues. The race occupation relationship does not vary substantially across SMSAs; the race-SMSA relationship does not vary substantially across occupations; and the occupations SMSA relationship for whites does not differ materially from the occupation SMSA relationship for blacks. The occupational distributions of blacks and whites in different cities can be reproduced with tolerable accuracy from the three pair wise relationships among city, race and occupation. Implication means that stratifying an analysis of the race occupation relationship according to city of residence will, at best, add no information to one's findings, except possibly in the case of anomalous SMSAs. The literature which one criticize is first and foremost a set of stratified analyses in which a summary measure of the race occupation relationship is computed in each SMSA, and then this measure is related to other characteristics of the SMSA.