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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 31.
Published in final edited form as: Popul Dev Rev. 2016 May 30;42(2):271–297. doi: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2016.00125.x

Racial Composition of 1980 White-Black Place Trajectories, 1980–2010

Dominantly Black Stably White White Decline/Black Growth White Decline/Hispanic Growth

Trajectory # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
White Share
 1980 .21 .74 .80 .49 .61 .79 .67 .61
 2010 .18 .72 .71 .31 .48 .56 .45 .34
Black Share
 1980 .77 .25 .18 .49 .37 .19 .28 .29
 2010 .79 .23 .21 .66 .45 .27 .32 .31
Hispanic Share
 1980 .01 .01 .01 .01 .01 .01 .03 .06
 2010 .02 .03 .05 .02 .04 .13 .17 .26
Asian Share
 1980 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .01 .02
 2010 .00 .01 .01 .00 .01 .02 .02 .06
Region
 Northeast .04 .06 .06 .01 .03 .06 .15 .33
 Midwest .33 .16 .10 .10 .06 .14 .08 .08
 South .64 .78 .83 .88 .90 .80 .74 .50
 West .00 .01 .00 .01 .01 .00 .03 .09
Area
 Metro .65 .53 .59 .45 .46 .72 .71 .91
 Micro .27 .26 .23 .24 .24 .15 .19 .06
 Rural .07 .20 .18 .31 .30 .13 .10 .03
N of places 55 197 341 140 725 191 299 100
Trajectory % 2.7 9.6 16.7 6.8 35.4 9.3 14.6 4.9