Matching Pairs Social and Political EffectsOnline version Content Statement 29 by Jefferson County ESC 1 Republican Party 2 urban riots 3 Democratic Party 4 "white flight" 5 "redlining" middle class white Americans left cities for the suburbs in the 1950s caused by decaying environment and low employment opportunities in large cities Practice that denies services to whole neighborhoods on the basis of race or ethnicity 1960s, conservative and reduction in government regulations of the economy 1960s, championing of civil rights and racial desegregation