"White Flight" as explained by Scientific American in October 1957

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http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa004&articleID=193AE1D8-E7F2-99DF-3F9726D59FA872C1&ref=rdf

I'm amazed they "dared" to re-publish this in today's PC world. Go SciAm!

Aside from low income, movement into the unaccustomed city environment tends to break down whatever stability of attitude and habit the Negro brings with him from the rural South. Family disorganization among Negro city dwellers is high, as measured by such indices as broken marriages, families headed by females, and unrelated individuals living in the same household. How does a mother keep her teen-aged son off the streets if an entire family must eat, sleep and live in a single room? What opportunity for quiet or security is there in a tightly packed, restless neighborhood? The slum encourages rowdiness, casual and competitive sexuality, a readiness for combat; disease and crime rates soar.

And nothing much has changed.