Neighborhoods isolated from city and white support could not sustain segregation
Evidence
Without assistance from either the city or other white neighborhoods, Adair Park proved unable to maintain any semblance of “community integrity,” even in an artificial way, as Adamsville had. And without any strong internal institutions upon which whites could rely, Adair Park was likewise unable to prolong the campaign of residential resistance. Forced to fend for itself, yet another “white community” disintegrated. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 222
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: White neighborhoods needed outside elite intervention to preserve segregation, exposing hollow appeals to community. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 201; Intransigent white resisters destroyed compromise efforts and sped neighborhood transition — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 221; Black and Latino neighborhoods were far more segregated than white ethnic enclaves — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 368 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- White exclusionary neighborhoods remain segregated without formal Jim Crow laws
#corroborates(0.85) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 510 - Black segregation rose from white avoidance, not black housing preferences
#corroborates(0.82) - Desegregation plans failed to reduce segregation because of demographic and doctrinal limits
#qualifies(0.80) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3039 - Black and Latino neighborhoods were far more segregated than white ethnic enclaves
#expands(0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 368 - Municipal boundary lines perpetuate racial and class segregation
#expands(0.74) — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law, 1349