Has middle class "white flight" occurred in your region?

ucbalumnus
Mon, 11 May 2020 00:23:50 +0000

katliamom:

ucbalumnus:

Wouldn’t “white flight” be a form of “changing demographics”?

I always thought of white flight as white families fleeing neighborhoods when non-whites move in. There were always many Asians in the Bay Area, and certainly many in Cupertino in the 70s.

From the following:

http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/cities/Cupertino70.htm
http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/cities/Cupertino.htm

Cupertino’s white population by census:

1970: 17,552 (96.4%), includes some of the 592 (3.2%) “persons of Spanish origin or descent”
1980: 30,938 (91.0%), includes some of the 1,473 (4.3%) “Spanish origin” persons
1990: 29,918 (74.3%), includes some of the 1,937 (4.8%) “total Hispanic” persons
2000: 25,342 (50.1%), includes some “Hispanic or Latino”; 24,181 (47.8%), not “Hispanic or Latino”
2010: 18,270 (31.3%), includes some “Hispanic or Latino”; 17,085 (29.3%), not “Hispanic or Latino”

1970 → 1980: overall growth (18,216 → 34,015), still mostly white, but a bit less so than before
1980 → 1990: overall growth (34,015 → 40,263), white population basically steady, but essentially all growth is non-white (almost all Asian)
1990 → 2000: overall growth (40,263 → 50546), white population starts dropping, non-white (almost all Asian) growth
2000 → 2010: overall growth (50,546 → 58,302), white population accelerates drop, non-white (almost all Asian) growth