From Richard Benjamin’s Searching For Whitopia: An Improbable Journal To The Heart of White America
“Most whites are not drawn to place explicitly because it teems with other white people. Rather, the place’s very whiteness implies other perceived qualities. Americans associate a homogenous white neighborhood with higher property values, friendliness, orderliness, hospitality, cleanliness, safety, and comfort. These seemingly race-neutral qualities are subconsciously inseparable from race and class in many whites’ minds. Race is often used as a proxy for those neighborhood traits. And, if a neighborhood is known to have those traits, many whites presume—without giving it a thought—that the neighborhood will be majority white.”
I think of the many liberals I know who live in such whitopias, but would never ever concede race as a factor in their decision to live where they do.
