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white flight

Slang the residential movement of white people from the city to the suburbs or from one suburb to another in an effort to evade members of some ethnic group, esp. black people

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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