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White flight from residential neighborhoods to urban areas was caused by population pressures, such as the large migration of blacks from the rural Southern United States to urban cities of the Northern United States and the Western United States in the Great Migration and waves of new immigrants. This phenomenon has come to symbolize housing discrimination and disinvestment faced by ethnic minorities and urban areas. Racism alone is not seen as the sole cause of white flight, disinvestment, and neighborhood decline[.