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...said that the cities have been losing whites to the suburbs since World War II, and that the reason for it is unclear. Several social scientists have worked with the same data and have found results differing from Coleman's, Pettigrew said...
Coleman's remarks, Pettigrew said, were a "gift from God" for legislators and people who would like to give up on school desegregation...
...Pettigrew said Coleman's statements on court-ordered busing were only his own opinions, and that they were "unrelated" to the study of school desegregation, which is sponsored by the Urban Institute...
...Pettigrew criticized Coleman's research for not considering other factors that might have caused the exodus, such as urban blight and the attractive tax advantages living in the suburbs, and for assuming that urbanization trends will continue as they have in the past...
...Pettigrew called the political damage to desegregation from Coleman's remarks "catastrophic." "You can't get a genie back into the bottle," he said...