The persistence of white flight in middle-class suburbia |
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| Institution: | 1. George Mason University, School of Business, USA;2. George Mason University, Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science, USA;3. George Mason University, Department of Global and Community Health, USA;1. University at Albany, State University of New York, United States;2. Michigan State University, United States;1. Department of Sociology, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA;2. Department of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, USA |
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| Abstract: | Scholars have continued to debate the extent to which white flight remains racially motivated or, in contrast, the result of socioeconomic concerns that proxy locations of minority residence. Using 1990–2010 census data, this study contributes to this debate by re-examining white flight in a sample of both poor and middle-class suburban neighborhoods. Findings fail to provide evidence in support of the racial proxy hypothesis. To the contrary, for neighborhoods with a larger non-white presence, white flight is instead more likely in middle-class as opposed to poorer neighborhoods. These results not only confirm the continued salience of race for white flight, but also suggest that racial white flight may be motivated to an even greater extent in middle-class, suburban neighborhoods. Theoretically, these findings point to the decoupling of economic and racial residential integration, as white flight may persist for groups even despite higher levels of socioeconomic attainment. |
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| Keywords: | White flight Residential segregation Race Spatial assimilation Racial proxy |
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