There Goes the Neighborhood

I wasn't born when my "There Goes The Neighborhood" moment happened, but my father was and he told me about what happened. My dad is from a small town in Mississippi called, Yazoo City. There are both blacks and whites in Yazoo County (County in which Yazoo City is in). When my father was a teenager back in the 70's a change began to take place in the county.
There were more whites than blacks at the time so the whites occupied Yazoo City. The other part of the county is known as the "country" . Black people began to migrate into the city because if you lived in the country there was a distance of a couple of miles to get to school and work. So it only made since to move into the more urbanized area. Whites didn't like the change when more and more black people began moving into their neighborhoods. Ultimately the whites began to move out and into the country and if they stayed in the city they lived in a secluded quiet neighborhood where couldn't affor to live (at the time).
The blacks and whites made a switch or as I would call it a silent trade. Whites opened their own school in the country for their kids so they wouldnt have to travel that far. Most families had cars so transportation to and from work wasn't a problem. Everyone seemed not to have a problem with the change. It's just sad that the two different races couldn't come together and make things better. The result of this switch leads to the two races not knowing how to interact on a level other than tolerence.