White homeowners saw each black move-in causing massive white flight citywide

Evidence

Barbara Ryckeley, an officer with Southwest Citizens, pointed out that not just Peyton Forest but all of white Atlanta was “endangered” by black expansion. “If the whites could just win once,” she explained, “they would have some hope for holding out. I think the whole city of Atlanta is at stake. You realize that every time Negroes replace whites about eighty-five percent of the whites move out of the city?” — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 21

Categorization

• XREF: Directly connected to the reader’s stated goal of tracking how segregationist ideology gets reinvented; this quote shows the perceived tipping-point logic that later became color-blind ‘neighborhood stability’ discourse. — 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; Early white sellers triggered a domino flight effect on the block — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 151; Incipient black home sales triggered cascading white panic driven by rumor — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 216 (+8 more)
• SEED: The contested ‘eighty-five percent’ figure white organizers used could anchor an article on how the white-flight statistic itself functioned as a self-fulfilling rhetorical weapon.

Broader Connections

• Proximity to black neighborhoods triggers white flight that intensifies with black population share. #corroborates (0.88) — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 1046
• Visible minority presence in white suburbs still triggers white flight #expands (0.78) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 511
• Municipal neglect caused the decay whites blamed on black residents #complicates (0.78) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 180
• Interstate-funded suburbanization triggered mass white flight that undercut urban renewal #qualifies (0.76) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1201
• White neighbors terrorized Black families until they fled white neighborhoods. #corroborates (0.75) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 479
• White flight repeated itself from suburbs into 95-percent-white exurbs #expands (0.74) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 589
• Residential transition fractured white communities along proximity-based lines of flight versus fight. #expands (0.72) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 210
• A single expressway’s noise and decline triggered cascading white flight and urban decay #qualifies (0.70) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 3722