Real estate oriented people know that the one thing which cannot be easily changed with roads and buildings, is the people.
Hence South Central Lost Angeles remains what it is; an ethnic sh!te hole. "You can't make chicken salad out of chicken sh!te"
Maxine Waters lives in a rich zip code, in a $4 million plus home, outside her district BTW. She don't wanna liv wiff em.
And Jesse Jackson don't wanna be walkin down da street wiff em, either.
So called "flight" was and remains common sense; a salf-defense measure. Blacks commit murder, seven times the rate of whites. Fed.Crime statistics. e.g. Approimately 50% of murders, by 12.3% of people (blacks).
Rational whites don't want to stay and debate the reasons. They just want to be more safe, so they get out.