[cgbg]

Legally enforced segregation was ended.

However, the facts on the ground are _very_ different.

Here in the north our cities are heavily black and our suburbs and rural areas are almost entirely white.

Just saying....

[Verginius Rufus]

Of course the famous Brown v. Board of Education case was about school segregation in Topeka, Kansas--a Northern state which entered the Union as a free state. New York enacted a law against racial discrimination in hiring only in 1948.

Jimmy Carter in Why Not the Best? (ironic title of his campaign autobiography) talks about how white kids and black kids played together growing up in rural Georgia--until they were about 12 years old. Probably most of the Yankees who looked down on him for being a Southerner had never experienced that growing up.

I was told once by a white Southerner that the difference between whites in the North and in the South (pre-Civil Rights revolution) was in the South they didn't care how close blacks got as long as they didn't get too high, while in the North they didn't care how high blacks got as long as they didn't get too close.