[ghaff]

In this case, it's hard to separate race from white migration to the suburbs. You can argue how much was driven by deliberate policy and how much was the result of organic segregation. Nonetheless, it was real and contributed to the fact that even many of today's "elite" US cities were losing population 20 years ago.

[davidw]

> it's hard to separate race from white migration to the suburbs.

Here's an entire book dedicated to discussing the government policies that drove separation: https://amzn.to/2Zz4Zeh (or get it from your local library!)

It's tough reading because a lot of things that happened were pretty ugly.