White Flight and Suburbanization

White flight is the process where white families and individuals leave cities, moving to suburbs, to avoid living in integrated communities. An influx of white flight coincided with suburbanization, where suburbs became the pinnacle of middle-class life. Cities grew to encompass more people and increase spatial boundaries to prevent racial integration. White flight was the result of a new form of segregationist policies and cooperation between local governments and white activists to restrict black residents from social mobility.