Sociology / Unit 10 Soc 1745 short lesson, about 20 seconds
White Flight
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The idea
White flight is the migration of economically secure White residents from racially mixed urban areas to the suburbs, documented across the twentieth century.
In practice
A racially mixed urban neighborhood losing its White middle-class population to nearby suburbs over decades illustrates the pattern.
Where people slip
White flight names a historical pattern with traceable causes; later reverse patterns do not erase what already occurred.
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