White Flight and the rise of Suburbia in the US.

[GMCGeneral]

Over in the thread concerning inner city schools, I brought this point up. Not trying to sound racist, but bringing up a very real point. White families in the mid-20th Century saw something they didn't want to deal with. And that is the cities have become overcrowded, crime infested, and decaying cesspools. But before WWII, there were extremely few options available except slums, tenements, and housing projects, or live on farms and very isolated towns/villages. Add to that returning Veterans from WWII and new families were emerging at breakneck speed. So, how do we house them? Do we build more projects like Pruitt-Igoe, which became an example of what NOT to do?

 

[Rambunctious]

Black flight - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

"Black flight from Los Angeles refers to the phenomenon of African Americans moving out of L.A., reversing earlier migration trends, driven by rising costs, gentrification, search for stronger communities, and a return to Southern roots, moving to areas like the Inland Empire, other states, or the South itself, contrasting with the earlier Great Migration to L.A.
. This outflow, especially noticeable since the 1980s, saw Black populations decrease as housing and economic pressures mounted, prompting movement to more affordable areas or back to Southern states

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

The Left Wingers hate the suburbanites and the small rural town people because they are too intelligent to vote Democrat.

 

[Polishprince]

Where did you get the idea that there aren't any black people in suburbia, or that there aren't any honkies in the cities?

Libs hate the automobile and they hate the suburbs. Just harder for them to control people who are in those circumstances. Suburbs have their own governments, so the people rule themselves instead of inner city political machines.