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Stendhal posed it in the 1830s in his novel Lucien Leuwen , in which the wealthy young Parisian hero contemplates fleeing the corruptions of monarchical old France for a new start in virtuous republican America.
A few musicians updated the 4-by-4 noise of the Sonics and invented grunge, temporarily making Seattle music city (and this time, the city's rock 'n' roll stars stayed put rather than fleeing to Los Angeles).
The folklore collected from Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the twentieth century, even if it’s from a third- or fourth-generation Chicano, generally will be folklore from Mexico transplanted to California since the turn of the century by immigrants fleeing a revolutionary war, or those coming to work in the agriculture fields.
The NYT mentions for instance that under the agreement with Justice, troopers are still allowed to make a race-based stop when they are pursuing a specific criminal suspect, but neither story says whether an all points bulletin saying to be on the look out for say, a fleeing black or Latino is specific enough.
Forget every Sunday-newspaper trend story you've ever read about gentrification, or about harried metropolitans fleeing to small towns, or about good-hearted buppies returning to the 'hood.