White flight developed independently in cities across both North and South

Evidence

The common themes shared by the homeowners’ movements of the urban North and the segregationist resistance of the urban South suggest that the white backlash that surfaced in later years was not, as many assumed at the time, a southern product imported to the North. Instead, white flight was a phenomenon that developed in cities throughout the nation, with the commonalities and cross-regional connections only becoming clear in retrospect. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 37

Categorization

• XREF: Contradicts the assumption that white backlash was a southern export; matters because segregationism’s reinvention was national, not regional. — connects to: White flight repeated itself from suburbs into 95-percent-white exurbs — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 589; Interstate-funded suburbanization triggered mass white flight that undercut urban renewal — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 1201; Suburban school district fragmentation structurally enabled white flight from desegregation. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3026 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Interstate-funded suburbanization triggered mass white flight that undercut urban renewal #complicates (0.85) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1201