white flight

white flight
noun
: the departure of whites from settings (as urban neighborhoods or schools) increasingly or predominately populated by minorities

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the movement of whites, esp. middle-class whites, from neighborhoods undergoing racial integration.
[1965-70]

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white flight noun
The movement by white people out of neighbourhoods where non-white people have come to live
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Main Entry: ↑white

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white flight,
U.S. Informal. migration of white city residents to the suburbs to escape the effects of desegregation.

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n. the move of native-born white city-dwellers to the suburbs to escape the influx of immigrants or migrants

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noun [noncount]
US : an occurrence in which many white people move out of a city as more and more people of other races move in

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ˌwhite ˈflight 7 [white flight] noun uncountable (US)
a situation where white people who can afford it go to live outside the cities because they are worried about crime in city centres

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