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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The truth is that racist government-sanctioned housing policies for a long time DID mean that an influx of non-Whites would tank home prices in affluent areas.

If you want to understand the impact of housing policies on race and race relations in this country, I would strongly recommend that you read this article: http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/05/the-case-for-reparations/361631/

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I am a conservative (generally) Republican, and I thank you for posting this. I have started reading it and find it very interesting. I look forward to finishing it later tonight. [/quote]

OP: here. Thank you for this.

Funny, before moving to the states, I always thought of liberals as more inclusive.  If thats the case, then why are liberal cities so segregated and there is such a disparity between blacks/hispanics and others i terms of education, wealth and health?  I know the answers to this are loaded, but it makes me wonder what liberal politicians are really doing to advance "equality."  Perhaps the idea of equality is joke in a capitalistic society. I digress.[/quote]My understanding is that there is more daily contact between blacks and whites in the south as a legacy of the days when blacks were servants in white households and needed to live nearby.  I'm not 100% sure about that but it's certainly true that historically there's been a lot more residential segregation in the north than the south.[/quote]Pp again -- I should add that I'm sure that northern residential segregation occurred in part because many African-American families in the north migrated from the south in the early to mid 1900s so they moved into redlined, segregated neighborhoods in the north because that was all that was available at the time. [/quote]

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