End of White Flight?

There's an interesting article in the latest New Republic that uses Chicago as a central example. It's more data that shows the revitalization of centralv cities and their increasing desirability to affluent (predominantly) white families. The American model of poor in the center and wealthy on the periphery is gradually reorienting itself towards the European model which is the opposite. I've personally noticed the changing demographics of Chicago in my time living here since 1992. Taking this trend to the extreme, you have the possibility of slums migrating to the exurbs.

Now, its doubtful that, even over the long run, all the suburbs will go into terminal decline. For one thing, Chicago is blessed with a good radial transit system that allows people to live far from the central city and still commute into the central business district relatively easily. It also allows people like me to do the reverse commute from the city (and inner burbs) out to the outer suburbs. Still, the revitalization of Chicago is a trend I'm happy to see, and it'll be very interesting to watch the progress over the next few decades.