I have found it very interesting to inspect the redlining maps from this era -- many of the divisions they reflected and enforced up to the 1960s-1970s are still loosely in place today, right down to the &quot;that&#x27;s the wrong side of the street&quot; level.  (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.urbanoasis.org&#x2F;projects&#x2F;holc-fha&#x2F;digital-holc-maps&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.urbanoasis.org&#x2F;projects&#x2F;holc-fha&#x2F;digital-holc-map...</a>)<p>Further to your point, another practice that re-distributed whites to the suburbs, to the benefit of shady property developers, is blockbusting.  (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Blockbusting" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Blockbusting</a>)  It also had nothing to do with green lawns and everything to do with racism.