White Americans prefer all-white neighborhoods even when amenities and class are equal

Evidence

In one study, subjects were shown videos of different but actual neighborhoods with actors playing residents—all-white, all-black, and 60 percent white/40 percent black—and asked which they preferred. The videos controlled for social class, which meant amenities in the white neighborhoods were like the amenities in the other neighborhoods. White Americans still preferred the all-white neighborhoods. Black Americans, on the other hand, least preferred the all-white neighborhoods, and viewed the all-black and racially diverse neighborhoods similarly and preferred them. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 1281

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing the original study to check sample size, framing, and methodology — this is a load-bearing empirical claim for the case that present-day racism, not rational price fears, drives white preferences.
• XREF: connects to: Whites redefined neighborhood worth as racial homogeneity plus amenity self-sufficiency — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 187