White Flight and White Return in Norfolk: A Test of Prediction

  • The system was not plunging toward “resegregation” as the result of white flight
  • The end of busing clearly did not improve white parents attitudes toward public schools
  • Armor’s prediction about supposed “resegregation” because of white flight was an ERROR.
  • Reason to believe that gains were due to demographic changes.
  • Decision of court based on erroneous argument.