Mandatory desegregation drives more white flight than voluntary programs

Evidence

The above chart (Rossell, 67) demonstrates the drastic drop in white enrollment resulting from the implementation of mandatory rather than voluntary desegregation plans. The significant effects of white flight can be observed through the percent of change of white enrollment in the desegregation year. Voluntary programs lost only between 5 and 6 percent of their white students while the mandatory programs saw nearly 13 percent of their white students leave. — Marcy Crouch, Magnet Schools and Other Means of…, 24

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to debates on coercion versus incentives in policy design, and to works like Rossell’s own studies on white flight. — connects to: White flight accelerated when working-class whites bore busing costs the affluent escaped. — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 101; Residential transition fractured white communities along proximity-based lines of flight versus fight. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 210; White suburban flight was segregation’s most effective response to civil rights demands — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 28