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Attested since 1954. Note that state laws enforcing racial segregation in schools were ruled unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education the same year.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
white flight
Today it means: The large-scale migration of white people from racially mixed urban regions to more racially homogeneous suburban or exurban regions. Full definition →