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noun
The large-scale migration of white people from racially mixed urban regions to more racially homogeneous suburban or exurban regions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, uncountable
Qualifier: urban studies
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History
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.
