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White Flight Slows, Stops, Reverses

Big cities influx of whites as more blacks move to suburbs

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 19, 2008 7:08 AM CDT

(Newser) – White Americans are reversing a decades-old trend by moving back to big cities, the Wall Street Journal reports. In cities like Boston, Washington DC, Seattle and Atlanta, the white population is rising again as suburbanites flock to live in newly trendy city centers—and affluent... Read full story »

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