white flight
noun
: the departure of whites from places (such as urban neighborhoods or schools) increasingly or predominantly populated by minorities
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His parents had bought their four-apartment home amid late ’60s white flight for $23,000, paying installments to the seller, who eventually forgave the balance.
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Siddhartha Mitter, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
In that case, a white flight attendant claimed that an unidentified individual had body odor and Black men were targeted for removal from the flight in a humiliating act of racial profiling, said the plaintiffs.
—Kizzy Cox, Essence, 12 Aug. 2024
The phenomenon of white flight — where white families fled inner-ring suburbs as Black families moved in — is apparent in the history of suburban school districts, Lily Altavena reports.
—Diamy Wang, Detroit Free Press, 28 July 2024
Red and blue Milwaukee spent decades reliably spinning apart, spurred by white flight and racial segregation and political sorting and ceaseless battleground competition and sky-high levels of political engagement and mobilization.
—Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 16 July 2024
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Siddhartha Mitter, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
In that case, a white flight attendant claimed that an unidentified individual had body odor and Black men were targeted for removal from the flight in a humiliating act of racial profiling, said the plaintiffs.
—Kizzy Cox, Essence, 12 Aug. 2024
The phenomenon of white flight — where white families fled inner-ring suburbs as Black families moved in — is apparent in the history of suburban school districts, Lily Altavena reports.
—Diamy Wang, Detroit Free Press, 28 July 2024
Red and blue Milwaukee spent decades reliably spinning apart, spurred by white flight and racial segregation and political sorting and ceaseless battleground competition and sky-high levels of political engagement and mobilization.
—Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 16 July 2024
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“White flight.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white%20flight. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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