Maybe Jaco can be excused for not referring to Don Phares’ analysis of Webster Groves North and University City through the sixties. It could be difficult for a drunk. Is he writing pro bono?
However, the pattern of white flight is this;
1960- move from Grand/St. Louis area to Walnut Park
1967- move from Walnut Park to Jennings, Pine Lawn, Bellefontaine; North Pointe and Baden solid.
1975 move from North Pointe and Baden; Florissant opens up.
1980 Jennings, Ferguson and Riverview experience “white flight” to Hazelwood and Florissant. St Charles county starts taking off.
I do not relate this with any moral tinge. Evidence showed that the margins between white and black areas had a high rate of all social pathologies which adjusted once the neighborhood regained am ethnic identity. This was not true in the city limits. All within the city limits just sucks, and anyone with sense who can will move.
As a KC native, I have been baffled by much of STL over the years.
It seems like the hard working regular black families moved from E. St. Louis, IL to suburban Illinois while the welfare mess from East St. Louis moved to Missouri to augment the growth of the ghetto areas.