The Declaration of Constitutional Principles (known informally as the Southern Manifesto) was a document written in February and March 1956, in the 84th United States Congress, in opposition to racial integration of public places.[1] The manifesto was signed by 101 congressmen (99 Southern Democrats and two Republicans) from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.[1] The document was drafted to counter the landmark Supreme Court 1954 ruling Brown v. Board of Education, which determined that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional. School segregation laws were some of the most enduring and best-known of the Jim Crow laws that characterized the Southern United States at the time.[2]
Massive resistance to federal rules that ordered school integration was already being practiced across the South, and was not caused by the Manifesto. Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas had worked behind the scenes to tone down the original harsh draft. The final version did not pledge to nullify the 'Brown' decision nor did it support extralegal resistance to desegregation. Instead, it was mostly a states' rights diatribe against the judicial branch for overstepping its role.[3]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Manifesto
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Well, there is a lot of “chaos and confusion” in the government schools, with a lot of white kids being beaten and not much learning going on.
And “federal rules that ordered school integration” are largely thwarted these days (in all parts of the country in which there are heavy concentrations of minorities) by enrollments in private schools or shopping for safe government schools by means of moving into the right subdivisions.
Parents still want their kids in safe schools where at least some modicum of learning exists, whether bureaucrats in D.C. approve of it or not.