 Although some established families remained, the white population declined due to white flight to the outer suburbs.In 1970, the first language of 6.1 percent was Spanish; by 1980 that number had climbed to 13.4 percent.During the 1980s, Hispanic and Caribbean immigrants from countries such as El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Jamaica and elsewhere in the West Indies led a new wave of migration into the community.