Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: The busing issue is based on one unavoidable fact. [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Well off Whites did not want less well off Whites living near them, so they set up their areas of town. Poor Blacks and poor Whites lived in other areas, often right beside eachother. Northern housing patterns were likely different, in some places in the south we had "sundown" laws where a Black person would not be caught in some parts of town after sundown because that meant likely lynching, I don't know how extensive that was, but it was not the reality where I grew up.
Where I grew up the races were seperated in schools and public accommodations, even when they lived side by side. A lot of effort was put into maintaining that seperation. The truly sad part of the whole situation was that sexual angst underlay the whole system, the fear of cross racial relationships, particularly between Black men and White women - except among well off Whites, who simply did not want their kids mixing with ANYONE that was not of their class.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden