"But this very growth drew in many affluent Northerners who thought they had a right to segregated all-suburban schools
For starters, BS.
"I have no Southern white baggage."
Oh, my.........LOL.
Reading this is like walking through a landmine field!
I always love the transplants' self-righteous claims not to have 'Southern White Baggage'. While I didn't grow up in the South, my mother's family was thoroughly Southern: UDC, DAR, FFV, veterans of both sides of The War, significant slaveholders before The War, yellow dog democrats and all that. And you know what, I don't feel the least big guilty! F'em.