WAYxN Moass is the nearest thing the city has to a mayor of its own. A badly run city decays at the center. and there is no one to insist that Washington be well run. Secondly. the decay of the city center and the flight to the suburbs is not necessarily linked to Negro immigration. It has also happened in cities like Minneapolis where the Negro population is trifling. But in these cities. where the tragic racial problem hardly exists. the trend is far easier to reverse. Third. even the very unsatidfactory available studies of the emigration to the suburbs make it unchallengeably clear that the schools are the heart of the problem. If Washington has lost half its white children of elementary school age in the short space of five years. this is because the people who move to the suburbs are primarily families with children needing good schools. It must be added. however. that this primary movement of families with children is now being reinforced. in almost all American cities. by increasing construction of highrise housing in the metropolitan areas.
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