Facility siting itself can cause the segregation courts blame on demographics

Evidence

Although the two terms are commonly conflated, “desegregation” did not, in practice, mean the same thing as “integration.” To be sure, many whites acquiesced to court-ordered desegregation, but that did not mean they were themselves willing to share public spaces with blacks. A majority of white Atlantans recoiled at the thought of social contact between the races, which they more commonly disdained as “interracial intimacy.” Accordingly, as public spaces desegregated, whites abandoned them, effectively resegregating those places in the process. In the end, court-ordered desegregation of public spaces brought about not actual racial integration, but instead a new division in which the public world was increasingly abandoned to blacks and a new private one was created for whites. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 250 (#responds-to, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Demographic change over time does not exonerate facility siting from racism; Segregated space silently perpetuates stratification even with no active racists; Changing the geographic unit of analysis can make racial siting disparities statistically vanish (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Court-ordered desegregation of public spaces produced resegregation and private alternatives, not integration #responds-to (0.80) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 250