What do you think of this?
He's had some excellent books and articles, but I think he missed the boat in this article - I hope the book will be better.
A wholly disproportionate number of future black leaders and pioneers in many fields came out of the relatively few and small enclaves of Northern culture deliberately planted in the post-Civil War South. What they did worked and what the multiculturalists are doing today repeatedly fails.
I think here is where Mr. Sowell misses his mark, the point being that many do not want an 'elitist' education. Elitist being another case of poor/Southern/rednecks being told what to think by presumably enlightened yankees.
That's the reason many FLED England and the British Isles.