Toxic waste siting itself drives post-siting white flight and resegregation

Evidence

The second hurdle, proving segregative effect, may be less difficult to overcome. Anecdotally, and on the basis of common sense, one can easily argue that once a locally unwanted land use is allowed into a neighborhood, whites tend to move out—thus, the facility has had the effect of increasing segregation. This has been true in several situations in California. Eighty-four percent of the population of Kettleman City, for example, was Latino in 1980, just one year after the Chemical Waste Management toxic dump was sited nearby; ten years later, 95 percent were Latino. — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 1132

Categorization

• XREF: Directly complicates the market-dynamics siting debate the book engages in chapters 7-8 — Been’s ‘market dynamics’ argument vs. post-siting segregative effects — and the Kettleman data pays off earlier chapters’ focus on that town. — connects to: Proximity to black neighborhoods triggers white flight that intensifies with black population share. — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 1046; Waste-siting creates a self-reinforcing land-value deprivation cycle — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 360; Questioning why whites reject waste facilities exposed the racial targeting of Tribes — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 609 (+3 more)
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how far the longitudinal Title VIII strategy proposed here has actually succeeded in later litigation.

Broader Connections

• Correlational studies cannot by themselves establish that environmental racism siting is causal #qualifies (0.85) — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 308
• Questioning why whites reject waste facilities exposed the racial targeting of Tribes #responds-to (0.82) — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 609
• Post-siting market dynamics cannot explain current disproportionate siting patterns #corroborates (0.75) — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 352
• Imagining flight reduces death thoughts after mortality reminders #complicates (0.72) — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 316