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Re:Millennials Moving to Suburbs Will Change Economic Develo... by smileysteve on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @01:40PM (#16747110)
> For other reasons, schooling and crime are such that for those that want families, cities are less than ideal than the suburbs.

Translated: White Flight.

There are great (public and private) schools in NYC, the Bronx, and Brooklyn.

Many of the cities with "poor" inner city schools are also cities where white flight and highway riots hit the worst.

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Re:Millennials Moving to Suburbs Will Change Economic Develo... by geggam on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @01:57PM (#16747314)
Why is it white flight and not those who have the means flight ?

Always with the race.... its obtusive

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Re:Millennials Moving to Suburbs Will Change Economic Develo... by pseudalopex on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @04:40PM (#16748907)
Because money wasn't enough. Banks, real estate developers, and white buyers and sellers routinely discriminated against non-whites through practices like redlining and blockbusting.
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Re:Millennials Moving to Suburbs Will Change Economic Develo... by geggam on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @05:11PM (#16749300)
History... and the word Slave came from the word Slavic...

Today this behavior is illegal and perpetuating that stereotype reinforces racism

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Re:Millennials Moving to Suburbs Will Change Economic Develo... by kingnothing on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @05:03PM (#16749176)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight
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