Just listened to a piece on public radio about black people in San Francisco. Apparently they’ve been heading for the suburbs in droves because the city is too expensive. Stable institutions like churches have seen their attendance decimated as their congregation departs.
The tone of the piece implied that this was a bad thing, and perhaps it is. But the same has been said of white flight, implying that inner cities become a wasteland of ethnic poverty. Perhaps both viewpoints are correct. If the old patterns of segregation are being maintained then nothing improves. On the other hand, maybe the major effect in play is old-fashioned resistance to change.