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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere
until it removed racial screening on immigration in the late 1970's.
"White Flight" can't happen if there aren't any minorities to run away from.
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Also, black Americans as a group were always poor compared to whites as a group (although there were wealthy blacks in the north and now there are a ton of wealthy black Americans all over the country), but they were wealthy by world standards. The bus boycotts in the southern United States in the 1950s and 1960s were possible because a lot of blacks in those areas (despite being the poorest areas of the country) owned cars and could give people rides.
No Green Book would have existed if blacks couldn't afford cars. The Green Book itself (at least the year I looked at, which I think was around 1947) had large multi-page advertisements for new cars. Everyone in the present day wants to think that all black Americans were all toiling as sharecroppers until recently but it's simply not true.