Your "White Flight" Story

[scarecrow]

What the hell are "black immigrants"?

I think they meant migrants. Since there was a mass exodus from the south at the time.

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My great grandfather owned an AMC dealership on Greenfield back in the day. He kept it there the entire time until the neighborhood fell apart around it where it was eventually sold.

They left Detroit and went to Farmington Hills when it was still farmland so I'm assuming around 55 or 56 since it was right before Greene's was opened.

[bartocktoo]

I think they meant migrants. Since there was a mass exodus from the south at the time.

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My great grandfather owned an AMC dealership on Greenfield back in the day. He kept it there the entire time until the neighborhood fell apart around it where it was eventually sold.

They left Detroit and went to Farmington Hills when it was still farmland so I'm assuming around 55 or 56 since it was right before Greene's was opened.

What blows my mind is that we moved to Rochester Hills when I was young in 1979 [[where I grew up...full disclosure I've lived in and out of the city and currently in an inner-ring suburb)...farmland there too. 40 years later the sprawl north from where I grew up near Oakland U is arguably another 11 miles, north east and north west much further. And the area's population has stayed the same...

[Zacha341]

Yes my parents, black, migrated from the south etc. Both sides bringing their siblings with them. They came in the late 50's. A family elder working on the construction of Cobo Hall, another Uniroyal Tire on Jefferson, an aunt a school teacher, one the US Post Office, etc. They lived their entire lives in Detroit.

I think they meant migrants. Since there was a mass exodus from the south at the time.
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My great grandfather owned an AMC dealership on Greenfield back in the day. He kept it there the entire time until the neighborhood fell apart around it where it was eventually sold.

They left Detroit and went to Farmington Hills when it was still farmland so I'm assuming around 55 or 56 since it was right before Greene's was opened.