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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Res. 2011 Jul 1;40(4):1108–1123. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.04.003

Table 1.

Summary of Bifurcation, Fragmentation, and Integration Models of Neighborhood Change

Bifurcation Fragmentation Integration
Diversity trends
 Overall Uneven change Decreasing diversity Increasing diversity
 Low diversity tracts Uneven change Persistence Instability→high diversity
 High diversity tracts Uneven change Instability→low diversity Persistence
 White diversity exposure Low/decreasing Low/decreasing High/increasing
 Nonwhite diversity exposure High/increasing Low/decreasing High/increasing
Neighborhood transitions
 White-dominant Persistence Persistence Instability→W-other
 White-shared Instability→W-dominant Instability→W-dominant Instability→W-other
 White-other Instability→no-majority Instability→BLA-majority Persistence
 BLA-dominant Instability→BLA-nonwhite Persistence Instability→BLA-white
 BLA-shared Instability→BLA-nonwhite Instability→BLA-dominant Instability→BLA-white
 BLA-white Instability→BLA-nonwhite Instability→BLA-dominant Persistence
 BLA-nonwhite Persistence Instability→BLA-dominant Instability→BLA-white
 White-no-majority Instability→BLA-no-majority Instability→BLA-majority Persistence
 BLA-no-majority Persistence Instability→BLA-majority Persistence
Population distribution
 White population shares Increasing in W-dominant tracts Increasing in W-dominant tracts Increasing in group-other tracts
 BLA population shares Increasing in group-other tracts, whites absent Increasing in BLA-dominant tracts Increasing in group-other tracts, whites present
Diversity and population dynamics
 Diversity levels Increasing Decreasing Increasing
 Population change White decline BLA-growth White stability