White flight | United States history (original) (raw)

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busing

• In busing
  This exodus, known as “white flight,” made it difficult for districts to meet their obligations under court-ordered desegregation. Additionally, whites who opted to stay in the urban areas were more likely to enroll their children in private or parochial schools.
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yuppies

• In yuppie
  …hyping a reversal of so-called white flight, suggesting that baby boomers, characterized as a generation of former hippies who were then entering their 30s, were shifting away from the suburbanized notion of the American dream of their parents and toward a new idealized urban lifestyle.
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