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> they pushed outwards [...] into racial minority neighborhoods which didn't, at the time, have a legal mechanism to meaningfully resist. AFAIK in the boomer y
by Camillo 9y ago
> they pushed outwards [...] into racial minority neighborhoods which didn't, at the time, have a legal mechanism to meaningfully resist.
AFAIK in the boomer years the prevalent phenomenon was the opposite: minorities moving into formerly majority neighborhoods, and the majority moving out. This was known as "white flight".
- closeparen 9y agoYou're right, I'm talking about the (mostly stalled) attempt by Gen X to walk back white flight in the 1970s, which is where much of the current thinking and policy around gentrification comes from.
- coffeevradar 9y agoAccording to Wikipedia, for Generation X "demographers and researchers typically use starting birth years ranging from the early-to-mid 1960s and ending birth years ranging from the late 1970s to early 1980s." So any members of Generation X were still children in the 70s or not yet born. I think you mean a different cohort or a different time.