Hartford, Connecticut: What Happened?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight

Nor is this a phenomenon limited to liberal cities-the case has been the same with Southern city cores such as Atlanta or Jackson.

white flight is at least as much a result as a cause of the decline.

It was a manufacturing center in midcentury and so suffered a decline similar to other Northeastern manufacturing cities. Add to that a few decades of generally unattractive tax and business climate at the state level.