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>>>Throughout the book he makes the argument that if you remove the legal frameworks that enforced segregation, that people would over time choose to integrate
by alexisread 1y ago
>>>Throughout the book he makes the argument that if you remove the legal frameworks that enforced segregation, that people would over time choose to integrate as they found mutual advantage in doing so. Reasonable people can disagree with this assessment.
Not to weigh in on the quote, but as to this opinion statistics might disagree, and is kinda the basis for positive discrimination:
https://ncase.me/polygons/ https://ncase.me/polygons/
- ch4s3 1y agoThis is a rather thin and 1 dimensional take on economic preferences, particularly something as complicate as housing. What we actually know from history is that poorer neighborhoods integrated rather freely at the turn of the last centruy because they were cheap and that segregating them required active and ongoing government intervention at all levels of government.