the departure of White residents from areas where people of other ethnic groups are settling
white flight in American English
Slang
the residential movement of white people from the city to the suburbs or from one suburb to another in an effort to evade members of some ethnic group, esp. black people
Examples of 'white flight' in a sentence
white flight
I'm talking about all the people caught up in white flight.
Elmore Leonard WHEN THE WOMEN COME OUT TO DANCE (2002)