The 70s were the nadir for us cities as far as population loss in city propers go.
Every legacy city was utterly walloped by white flight in that decade.
My own parents white flighted outta chicago to the burbs in the mid-70s just before I was born.
1970s population loss in legacy cities:
St. Louis: -27.1%*
Cleveland: -23.6%*
Buffalo: -22.7%*
Detroit: -20.5%
Pittsburgh: -18.5%*
DC: -15.6%*
Cincinnati: -14.8%*
Minneapolis: -14.6%*
Philly: -13.4%*
Baltimore: -13.1%*
Boston: -12.2%
Milwaukee: -11.3%*
Chicago: -10.7%*
NYC: -10.4%*
(*) signifies worst decade on record thus far
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Last edited by Steely Dan; Oct 21, 2022 at 7:55 PM.
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