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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 3.

Transitions in White-Majority Tracts, 1990–2000a

2000 racial structure E % changeb N of tracts
Dominant Shared W-B W-L W-A W-B-L W-B-A W-L-A No W maj.
1990 racial structure Dominant 62.3% 26.8 3.9 4.6 1.4 57.3 14,788
Shared 2.1 38.0% 10.9 25.0 10.8 5.2 3.8 2.6 34.0 4,751
W-B 5.6 54.7% 1.1 8.0 1.2 27.4 22.7 3,596
W-L 3.3 54.1% 3.9 4.9 32.6 19.2 3,688
W-A 3.4 61.8% 2.1 12.5 17.0 17.2 893
W-B-L 5.9 16.3% 73.5 11.7 680
W-B-A 20.8% 56.8 11.1 125
W-L-A 3.6 3.6 23.8% 68.1 12.4 639
Mean E (2000) 14.7 33.7 52.2 53.8 53.8 71.9 75.0 70.5 59.0
N of tracts 9,356 6,135 3,126 4,008 1,343 873 144 670 12,193
a

Cell percentages representing less than 1 percent of category or fewer than 10 tracts are omitted. W-B-L-A tracts are omitted due to small Ns and empty cells. There were 29,259 white-majority tracts in 1990; in 2000, there were 25,758 white-majority tracts.

b

Median percent change in tract diversity.