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Once crime would have skyrocketed, though, white flight was pretty much inevitable. Prevent skyrocketing crime rates, and you could possibly avoid a large part of the white flight. Living in areas with large black populations would be more appealing without the sky-high crime rates since then it...

Well, the causes of this was the Great Migration combined with white flight, no? What else was there?

How else did the "Negrification" of the Northern US occur? AFAIK, the Great Migration was the main part of it. There were few blacks in the Northern US in 1910, after all. And re: racially restrictive covenants: I suspect that Yeah, either they would be kept or some other equally effective...

I suspect that people from 1948 Detroit would aggressively push to keep their restrictive covenants in this TL after they would see what the Great Migration would have done to the other large Northern US cities by 2014. Meanwhile, if 2014 Detroit appears in 1948, that might be enough to push the...