Not really. There are only two causes of white flight. Fear of your own safety and fear of rapidly declining property values forcing anyone with the means to get out while there is still a market. And the two are connected.
I think there might be just a few other reasons behind white flight.
The mayor can ask the governor to do so.
Not really. There are only two causes of white flight. Fear of your own safety and fear of rapidly declining property values forcing anyone with the means to get out while there is still a market. And the two are connected.
Not really. There are only two causes of white flight. Fear of your own safety and fear of rapidly declining property values forcing anyone with the means to get out while there is still a market. And the two are connected.
Both of those are caused by hundreds of factors contributing to them though, which is what eskimospy was pointing out. The causes can be numerous. Property value could go down due to changing business models, natural causes, shifting cultural tastes, civil unrest, etc.
Not really. There are only two causes of white flight. Fear of your own safety and fear of rapidly declining property values forcing anyone with the means to get out while there is still a market. And the two are connected.
You're forgetting cause #3, if a lot of black people start moving in a mostly white neighborhood. Many white people will be looking to move ASAP. There are still plenty of white people who don't want to be live around a lot of black people, even if they're decent hard working people.
There are at least two more, although of course they don't apply only to whites. Some of us don't want to be in close proximity to many people of any ethnicity or behavior. And some of us want a little land, which we can't possibly afford in the city even if we wanted to be there.Not really. There are only two causes of white flight. Fear of your own safety and fear of rapidly declining property values forcing anyone with the means to get out while there is still a market. And the two are connected.
What's that say about the black communities? Having white people live intermingled with black people makes their lives better just makes no sense to me.
You're forgetting cause #3, if a lot of black people start moving in a mostly white neighborhood. Many white people will be looking to move ASAP. There are still plenty of white people who don't want to be live around a lot of black people, even if they're decent hard working people.
Having people with higher income intermingled makes the total tax contribution higher which benefits everyone. People don't just choose their neighborhood based on their neighbors but on what the local government can offer. Especially when it comes to public education. I think most of the same white people would have no problem living with upper crust black families that earn a lot of money.
"Right 'o govna. Can you be a good chap and send in some National Guardsmen? I fathom military occupation will certainly quell this spat and settle these ruffians down!"
Looks like maybe some people are good at pushing other people's buttons.Don't forget all the agitators that came running in to spur this on. Just like Ferguson.
Looks like maybe some people are good at pushing other people's buttons.
Social media analysis suggests links between Baltimore and Ferguson violence
Looks like maybe some people are good at pushing other people's buttons.
Social media analysis suggests links between Baltimore and Ferguson violence
This, exactly.
As much as we want to dream of an ideal socialist society where we all live and share in harmony, the reality is the world operates based on self-interests, self-desires. People want to live in a community where they are the beneficiary of their neighbors, not the giver to their neighbors. This holds true for damn near all people regardless of race.
If rich black families began moving into my neighborhood, I'd be ecstatic! Come, live near me!
People who are mobile move for 3 primary reasons: (1) a better job for themselves, (2) better educational system for their children, (3) safety (I won't be job hunting around Baltimore anytime soon)
When "flight" occurs, it occurs not because the group wants to protect group interests, it's because individuals want to protect their own self-interests.
I've been watching some of the coverage and the media seems fascinated by numbers. Number of arrests, how much the senior center costs, how many fires, how many police cars, how many national guard on call, how many officers requested from New Jersey, how much looting took place, etc etc.
When the media shows protests in other countries such as the Arab Spring, the media instead focuses on what social issues caused the protests. It is unfortunate that instead of directing our attention on the root cause, we are more concerned about the effects of it.
I'm not saying the looters and such are innocent or that the riots shouldn't be properly covered, but the overt fascination with the surface level tensions instead of the undercurrent that causes it is unfortunate.
Statistically those other factors don't hold up. When business models change, people get different jobs in the same area. And tornado alley, New Orleans, northeast blizzards and west coast earthquakes conclusively prove that certain races most assuredly do not desert an area en masse due to natural causes. No evidence exists for cultural tastes. But civil unrest, that's the key.
White flight is traced clearly to the race riots of the 60s. Civil unrest, fear of safety and fear that the perception of an area as being unsafe will trash property values. There's not a single shred of evidence of "xxxxx flight" being tied to anything other than race. Some members of one ethnic group feel outnumbered, unsafe, see the handwriting on the wall and think the numbers will only get worse, so they jump out. Conditions then look worse and a few more follow. And a few more and poof, "xxxx flight". It's called white flight because it happens most often with middle class white abandoning areas starting to go downhill, but it does happen other ways too. Asian and hispanic and black communities can flee too if circumstances are right. But it's never about anything except race and perception of safety because of race. One group feels unsafe and bolts if they can.