Did they not result in broken families, increases in crime, drug use, and many other unintended consequences?
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It’s true that there were consequences. One has to wonder, though just how unintended those results were.
Yes. I think I just got lazy and didn't want to go into all that. Also, I like the term 'unintended consequences'. Sometimes I am seduced by clever phrases, being the clever boy that I think I am.
Of course your hypothesis is correct, as illustrated by this quote.
With regards to his Civil Rights Act legislation;