Positive contact or “white flight”?: why whites in diverse places are more tolerant of immigration

Kaufmann, Eric (2015) Positive contact or “white flight”?: why whites in diverse places are more tolerant of immigration [Online resource]

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New research by Eric Kaufmann finds that local diversity does lead to more tolerant white attitudes and this is not the result of ‘white flight’. The results suggest that, as more locales become diverse, there will be more interethnic contact and more positive white attitudes to outgroups.