White Flight?
From 1940 to 1990, whites settled throughout the suburbs of St. Louis. Many of these whites were moving from the city to the suburbs. In the 1940s and 50s blacks’ opportunities to move out of the city were limited by restrictive covenants preventing them from buying houses in the suburbs. By 1970 almost 60 percent of the white population had fled St. Louis. In the 1980s and 1990s, whites continued to flee from the inner suburbs that were becoming more diverse. The following series of maps, produced by Colin Gordon shows demographic change between census years (1940 - 2010). In each map, population change is represented by colored dots representing 10 persons. (Gordon, Colin. "Mapping Decline" 2012) The following maps are taken from the website: http://mappingdecline.lib.uiowa.edu/map/