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Originally Posted by iheartthed
Put another way, San Francisco never really experienced white flight, although the city did experience population decline.
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that's a weird thing to say
SF white population:
1950 - 693,888 - 89.5%
1960 - 604,403 - 81.6%
1970 - 511,186 - 71.4%
1980 - 402,131 - 59.2%
1990 - 388,341 - 53.6%
2000 - 385,728 - 49.7% (Non Hispanic white: 338,909 - 43.6%)
2010 - 390,387 - 48.5% (non Hispanic white: 337,451 - 41.9%)
SF nonwhite population:
1950 - 81,469 - 10.5%
1960 - 135,913 - 18.4%
1970 - 204,488 - 28.6%
1980 - 276,843 - 40.8%
1990 - 335,618 - 46.4%
2000 - 391,002 - 50.3%
2010 - 414,848 - 51.5%
SF's white population started dropping nonstop right when nonwhite people started moving into the city in large and ever-growing numbers. But sure, there's no connection whatsoever.
It's true that white flight wasn't as bad as some other places though, and didn't result in massive abandoned areas and whatnot.