I suppose I should have mentioned earlier that I am not tremendously impressed with the song--it seems like it would have been an appropriate comment(though not necessarily accurate) if she had written it around 1968 when all that block busting was going on, and the real white flight actually took place--truth be told, the flight to the suburbs began a long time ago, when people wanted to own their own homes, instead of living in walk-ups and tenements, and they had enough money to do it--in the years after the big war, people tended to move en-mass, and it wasn't uncommon for urban ethnic communities to become suburban ones, churches, deli's and all--when this happened, a whole new wave of ethnic groups, including blacks, hispanics, and asians, moved in to the urban areas that had become vacant--

I guess I don't like either side in this--