Racism's alive and well

The Detroit News ran a story about the continued resonance of racism in the United States last Friday.

Nearly 40 percent of whites interviewed in Detroit, Boston, and Atlanta said they would move if their neighborhoods became more racially integrated, according to a study released Thursday.

Fear of declining property values and a jump in crime were the main reasons whites gave for wanting to move out of increasingly integrated neighborhoods, according to the study, which is in the November issue of the journal Demography.

The full text of the study, "Whites Who Say They'd Flee: Who Are They, and Why Would They Leave?," is available via the Center for Public Information on Population Research. To access it, you'll have to login with this information: Username: cpipr; password: demography.