Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: The busing issue is based on one unavoidable fact. [View all]jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Joe Biden grew up in part of Wilmington that didn't allow black people. You can buy all the "hardscrabble Scranton" stuff you want, but in Wilmington his father owned a successful car dealership, lived in an exclusive area, and sent Joe to an upscale private school. Joe graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965. The first black student wasn't admitted until 1971.
Redlining had been a longstanding practice in Delaware, and the problem was de facto segregation as a consequence of school districts that were drawn around the white neighborhoods.
But because Evans v. Buchanan finally came to a head in 1978 and the white people were furious that their kids were going to have to go to school with black kids. A lot of the white kids were just as pissed off about it, having learned hate from their parents.
Joe had to do a lot of fancy dancing to get re-elected in 1978, and that's all this is about. Period.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden