Proximity to black neighborhoods triggers white flight that intensifies with black population share.
Evidence
According to one study, among neighborhoods located within five miles of an established black neighborhood, white population loss is extremely likely, and this loss becomes virtually certain as the percentage of blacks increase. This pattern holds true for suburbs as well as for central cities. The probability that a central city tract located within five miles of a black neighborhood would lose white residents was . when its black percentage was 0%–5%; it rose to . when the black percentage reached 30%–40%. Massey and Denton, American Apartheid, supra, at 80. — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 1046
Categorization
- QUESTION: The probability figures themselves are blanked in the quote — worth chasing the original for the actual numbers.
- XREF: connects to: Toxic waste siting itself drives post-siting white flight and resegregation — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 1132; White flight repeated itself from suburbs into 95-percent-white exurbs — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 589; White neighbors terrorized Black families until they fled white neighborhoods. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 479 (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Black segregation rose from white avoidance, not black housing preferences
#corroborates(0.90) - White flight repeated itself from suburbs into 95-percent-white exurbs
#exemplifies(0.85) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 589 - Black presence above 10 percent of a neighborhood triggers falling property values
#expands(0.80) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 1266 - White neighbors terrorized Black families until they fled white neighborhoods.
#expands(0.75) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 479