white flight
the movement of white people, especially middle-class and affluent white people, from urban neighborhoods undergoing racial integration to the suburbs.
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white flight was the policy of our federal, state and local government.
It has white flight feathers, and its black color is a rusty black, that is, a black mixed with red.
Our Domestic Birds | John H. RobinsonThere came a fierce volley from a hundred rifles and a white flight of arrows from the concealed Indians.
The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon | Wyn RooseveltNothing too slender or too fragile for the white flight to alight upon.
The Heart of the White Mountains, Their Legend and Scenery | Samuel Adams DrakeBehind her, like a mantle streaming in the wind, the white flight of pigeons follows her movements.
Acrobats and Mountebanks | Hugues Le Roux
The principal difficulty which is encountered is the occasional appearance of one, two or three white flight feathers in the wing.
Ducks and Geese | Harry M. Lamon
British Dictionary definitions for white flight
the departure of White residents from areas where non-White people are settling
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