[dr_lew]

The exodus took a big chunk out of the city's black population in particular, shrinking it to 887,608 from 1,065,009, ...

That's almost a 17% decrease in the black population, much greater than the 7% decrease in overall population. So if the whites are fleeing, the blacks are way out in front of them! I can't pretend to understand these statistics, but it is certainly not "white flight" as it was understood in the 1960's.

[Secret Agent Man]

I am saying the white flight has been going on since the 1960s.

[Nat Turner]

LOL You will never hear it about it being called "black flight" as that does not fit the political mantra.

http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/in-a-reversal-more-840405.html

[TMA62]

I think it is a combination of:

1. The loss of public housing bastions like Cabrini Green
2. Gang warfare and crack coccaine are devasting black neighborhoods
3. Some blacks are getting sick and tired of being crapped on by those who claim to be looking out for them.

It is an interesting trend.

[dglang]

The whites have alrerady left with the blacks taking over many areas. The latinos are whats moving into the void and inbetween the black and white areas.

I sued to live in the South lawndale neighborhood which was ethnic european such as Czech, Polish, Lithuanian, etc. The blacks started moving into that area but were stopped by the latinos moving in before them. My old neighborhood is now mostly latino while the whites who used to live there long gone to the suburbs.