i can't pretend to be very well traveled, but my impression of places i've been is that white flight has created rings of nice places around cities.
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Actually, something else entirely is going on now
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unsurprising, but- elaborate?
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Busy morn. Give me a few
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No hurry!
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Replying to @random_eddie @mr_archenemy and
So...to start, I dislike the term 'white flight' because it's used to beat up whites for city disfunction and blurs what was going on. Blacks would have left also if not for racial restrictions. When they finally could, they did.
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Replying to @ElamBend @random_eddie and
By the late 50s, early 60s, it was clear that cities were starting to totter, it differed by city, but it's easy to find articles about Detroits problems in the early 60s and by that point, it'd already passed peak population. Spending was out of control and things were crumbling
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Replying to @ElamBend @random_eddie and
So, people began to leave if they could. People often track this to the late 60s or even 68 riots, but it began a lot early, the events of the late 60s just got the late movers off the fence.
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Replying to @ElamBend @random_eddie and
As it turns out, the abondment of the city core is a natural progression of city development. Here I point to a wonderful book: https://www.amazon.com/Sprawl-Compact-History-Robert-Bruegmann/dp/0226076911 …
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Replying to @MorlockP @random_eddie and
you know it? - I guess I shouldn't be surprised
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