‘White Flight’ Remains a Reality
New research finds many white suburbanites are motivated to move when their neighborhood becomes more ethnically diverse.
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White Flight
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Will America’s Schools Ever Be Desegregated?
Though there are practical obstacles to school integration, it's not an unreachable ideal.
Ghosts of White People Past: Witnessing White Flight From an Asian Ethnoburb
If diversity is so important to liberal whites, why do they keep fleeing ethnically diverse suburbia?
What the Rust Belt Can Teach Us About White Flight, Gentrification, and Brain Drain
With a focus on why people leave, we ignore at least half of the migration story.
White Flight and Housing Market Collapse
A new study links foreclosures to increasing racial segregation, especially in neighborhoods that had been relatively integrated.