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[quote=Anonymous]I'mthe pp who mentioned 8%. Here is more data on that statistic. As PPs suspected it does vary with the neighborhood's tolerance. maybe I was remembering the specific finding for one area.

Within the general framework of the invasion-succession model many studies have
attempted to identify the “tipping point,” or the percentage point of new minority residents which
causes the remaining white residents to leave. As Morton Grodzins (1958) predicted “once the
proportion of non-whites exceeds the limits of the neighborhood’s tolerance for interracial living,
whites move out.” The literature refers to this “limit of tolerance” as the racial tipping point.
Findings on the existence of a tipping point are varied, leading to the conclusion that
neighborhoods and communities are too heterogeneous to obey an iron-clad tipping point. For
example, one of the first observations of a tipping point came from Chicago Housing Authority’s
research from the 1950s. This study shows that once the population of a housing project
becomes more than one-third black, most white residents begin to leave (Meyerson and Banfield
1955). However, more recent studies looking at multiple cities found little evidence for a
universal specific tipping-point (Pryor 1978, Goering 1978). Card et al (2008) finds evidence for
a tipping point with a minority population of 5% to 20%, noting that tipping points are higher in
cities where whites have more tolerant racial attitudes.

http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1112&context=econ_honproj[/quote]

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