White people have flocked back to city centers — and transformed them

In the past decade, the White population increased significantly in urban cores across the country, bringing changes both sweeping and intimate.

In the 20th century, “White flight” transformed many American cities as White people moved in droves from urban centers to the suburbs.

In the last decade, that exodus kicked into reverse.

The White population increased between 2010 and 2020 in hundreds of neighborhoods at the center of many large cities, even as it declined almost everywhere else in the country.

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