Sentences with phrase «decades of white flight»

After decades of white flight to the suburbs, people are moving back to the urban core.

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Many of these individuals are white, middle - class kids who grew up in white - flight - created suburbia, but are choosing to return to the neighborhoods that their parents and grandparents left decades before.

Cities across America that have spent the past half - century sifting through the effects of decades of «White - Flight» from their urban cores, and in that time, their schools have struggled to meet the needs of the population that remained.

South Africa had been largely closed off for decades because of apartheid, and many of the country's first 100 AIDS cases were among white and mixed - race flight attendants for South African Airways, who did travel internationally.

Brad Plumer of the Washington Post has a list that includes the loss of manufacturing jobs, decades of bad government, white flight to the suburbs and more, that caused the population to go from 1,850,000 people in the 50s to around 700,000 today, with unemployment running at 18.6 %.