I hope to write a more complete post trying to put the #Ferguson protests in historical relief, but for now I really want to share these maps of white flight in St. Louis. The original maps are from the Mapping Decline project at the University of Iowa Libraries: http://mappingdecline.lib.uiowa.edu/map/. I've added where Ferguson is specifically located in each map.
I'm hoping that with these images you will see the incredible spread of white Missourians away from areas with increasing black populations, usually to the west. Chesterfield, MO, where St. Louis County Chief Jon Belmar resides, is in those western suburbs. The white dots indicate increasing white populations, black dots indicate increasing black populations, red dots indicate decreasing white, and yellow decreasing black.
I'm hoping that with these images you will see the incredible spread of white Missourians away from areas with increasing black populations, usually to the west. Chesterfield, MO, where St. Louis County Chief Jon Belmar resides, is in those western suburbs. The white dots indicate increasing white populations, black dots indicate increasing black populations, red dots indicate decreasing white, and yellow decreasing black.