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White Flight

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White flight is the migration of economically secure White residents from racially mixed urban areas to the suburbs, documented across the twentieth century.

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A racially mixed urban neighborhood losing its White middle-class population to nearby suburbs over decades illustrates the pattern.

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White flight names a historical pattern with traceable causes; later reverse patterns do not erase what already occurred.

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