[Modernman]

In the north, segregation wasn't codified into law as it was in the south. It was practiced on an individual basis.

Well, to be fair, some school districts in the North drew lines to make sure that there were overwhelmingly white schools and overwhelmingly black schools.

That was the exception, rather than the rule, however.

[Heyworth]

Well, to be fair, some school districts in the North drew lines to make sure that there were overwhelmingly white schools and overwhelmingly black schools.

Absolutely right. And those were the cases which were litigated and probably contributed to Watie's warped view of the subject. Today the segregation that goes on in the north is essentiallly economic. Middle-class and wealthy blacks either live in the suburbs and send their kids to the same schools as their white neighbors, or they send them to private schools. Public schools in major cities are left to the poor--black, white, or hispanic and that fact is that few poor whites live in major cities anymore. But that's a whole other conversation.

[stand watie]

and you can PROVE that DE FACTO SEGREGATION in damnyankeeland was historically "the exception rather than the rule"????

i think NOT, as damnyankees have ALWAYS been INTOLERENT,RACIST & BIGOTS. it is their NATURE.

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