Many whites fear the consequences of black majority rule.

Whites will remember the riots and fear at hearing 'black power.'

What most middle-class whites really fear are the educational values, performance and behavior of lower-class minority students.

The blacks would use it for their own comfort, not to control whites, as whites fear.

Whites feared that blacks would control every aspect of Southern political and social culture and society.

The whites in the neighborhood would fear for the value of their property and try to sell it before it dropped.

White feared that the rigid rule of the majority would limit more nuanced, effective, and practical solutions at the state level.

Many were reluctant to serve, the whites fearing too close an association with desegregation, the blacks concerned that the committee might be a sham.

Other whites feared race as a touchy subject.

Whites fear for their turf and blacks fear betrayal.