English Explanatory Dictionary

white flight

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The large-scale migration of white people from racially mixed urban regions to more racially homogeneous suburban or exurban regions.

Word forms

white flight

Etymology

Attested since 1954. Note that state laws enforcing racial segregation in schools were ruled unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education the same year.

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