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Originally Posted by Crawford
urban cores were generally getting whiter (and/or less black) over time.
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looking into the usual suspect cities, it seems to often be more of an issue of cities getting less black than it is of them getting more white. the lion's share of growth in most central cities in the north seems to be from latinos, asians, and others, not white people (with some big exceptions like DC with +25.0% NH-white growth).
A LOT of ink has been spilled over the "menace" of white gentrification, and it's most definitely a thing in many urban core neighborhoods, but in many cities that still have sizeable older urban white ethnic populations within city limits (i'm looking at you NYC, philly, and chicago), the overall balance of NH-whites at the city-wide level didn't really change all that much as an older ethnic white on the fringe either left or died for every white millennial that moved into a gentrifying core hood (more or less). in fact, NYC and philly, despite their solid overall growth, actually lost a tiny bit of NH-whites overall (quite surprising to me). and chicago saw only very modest overall growth of its NH-white population (+1.0%).
anyway, even though black flight saw a pretty substantial reduction from the '00s (particularly in chicago and detroit, thank god), it's still one of the main agents of demographic change in a lot of cities.
select cities by % loss of NH-blacks from 2010 - 2020:
st. louis: -17.5%
detroit: -15.9%
cleveland: -15.1%
baltimore: -14.6%
chicago: -9.7%
milwaukee: -6.5%
DC: -6.3%
cincinnati: -5.7%
philly: -4.7%
new york: -4.5%