Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: The busing issue is based on one unavoidable fact. [View all]wyldwolf
(43,875 posts)In 1972, the year Biden was elected to the Senate, Gallup asked respondents if they favored "compulsory busing of some children both black and white so that school desegregation can be achieved." Twenty percent of respondents said yes, 70 percent said no, and 9 percent had no opinion.
In 1973, PDK asked respondents about their views of school integration in general, noting that it was a broader concept than busing, which is a specific desegregation strategy. In that poll, 30 percent of voters said more should be done "to integrate schools throughout the nation," 38 percent said less should be done, and 23 percent said nothing should change.
Clearly compulsory busing was unpopular with a vast majority of Americans at the time it was implemented.
BTW, Kamala Harris's system in Berkely initiated volutary busing.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden