Residential transition fractured white communities along proximity-based lines of flight versus fight.

Evidence

This intrawhite hostility stemmed from the fact that whites responded to residential transition in very different ways. When confronted with the fact—not simply the “threat”—of black homeowners in their neighborhoods, whites reacted according to their proximity to racial change. Almost without exception, those nearest the front lines of transition wanted to flee, while those further back wanted to fight. The inherent conflict in those two goals soon surfaced, and a supposedly solid “community” succumbed to bitter infighting. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 210

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader project on how segregationist pressure fractures the apparent unity of a ‘community’ — parallels other case studies of white flight dynamics. — connects to: Housing fears proved the most emotionally charged white grievance for extremists to exploit. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 104; Residential segregation was conceived as territorial defense of white islands against black encroachment — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 115; Competing white supremacist groups were rivals publicly but allies in neighborhood defense. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 124 (+17 more)

Broader Connections

• Proximity to black neighborhoods triggers white flight that intensifies with black population share. #expands (0.88) — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 1046
• Housing scarcity and residential transition drove working-class whites into organized racism #expands (0.85) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 104
• Suburban school district fragmentation structurally enabled white flight from desegregation. #exemplifies (0.82) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3026
• Intransigent white resisters destroyed compromise efforts and sped neighborhood transition #corroborates (0.80) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 221
• White resistance in transitioning Atlanta neighborhoods targeted institutions like schools and churches. #exemplifies (0.80) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 211
• Visible minority presence in white suburbs still triggers white flight #expands (0.80) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 511
• Desegregation of public spaces drove working-class whites to reject civic community and city progress #expands (0.78) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 252
• Mandatory desegregation drives more white flight than voluntary programs #qualifies (0.74) — Marcy Crouch, Magnet Schools and Other Means of…, 24
• Whites embraced pluralism partly to legitimize abandoning troubled city spaces #qualifies (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 389