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impact of desegregation on white public school enrollment in the U.S. nonmetropolitan South, 1960-1990
Impact of desegregation on white public school enrollment in the United States nonmetropolitan South, nineteen hundred sixty - nineteen hundred ninety
1980 and that declines are greatest in those counties with
allocation and racial contact implied by public school
desegregation by deserting the public schools for private
discrimination" hypothesis, whites in the black belt counties
enrolled in public schools declines steadily from 1960 to
enrollment from 1960 to 1980 for the nonsouthern or "control"
findings for white responses to public school desegregation
I address this question by examining trends in white public
nonmetropolitan counties. In the southern sample, I find
of the rural South responded to the changes in resource
ones. I conclude by discussing some implications of the
relatively large black populations and only one public school
sample. Thus, consistent with Blalock's "competition-
school enrollment from 1960 to 1990 for two random samples of
system. I find no such declines in white public school
that the average percentage of white students in grades 1-12
The central question of this research is how did whites in
the U.S. rural South respond to public school desegregation?