I missed most of this debate. I put Eric on my spam filter list since there is no reason to waste time on boorish rants.
After reading Cameron's posts, I thought I would post the following. It is not mine, but comes from wikipedia. Government-aided white flight The organization of municipal government in the U.S. facilitated white flight from racially diverse cities by establishing new municipalities beyond the abandoned citys jurisdiction to avoid the legacy costs<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_costs>of maintaining city infrastructures, instead spending said taxes establishing the suburban infrastructures. The federal government contributed to white flight and the early decay of non-white city neighborhoods by withholding maintenance capital mortgages, thus making it difficult for the communities to either retain or attract middle-class residents.[39]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight#cite_note-wilson-38> The new suburban communities limited the emigration of poor and non-white residents from the city with restrictive zoning<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoning>, thus few lower middle-class people could afford a house in the suburbs. In the event, many all-white suburbs were incorporated to the cities they had fled. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, partially incorporated towns<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_subdivisions_of_Wisconsin>such as Granville, Wisconsin <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville,_Wisconsin>; the (then) Mayor, Frank P. Zeidler <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_P._Zeidler>complained about the societal destructive "Iron Ring" of new municipalities incorporated in the postWorld War II decade.[40]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight#cite_note-39>Analogously, semi-rural communities, such as Oak Creek <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Creek,_Wisconsin>, South Milwaukee<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Milwaukee,_Wisconsin>, and Franklin<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin,_Milwaukee_County,_Wisconsin>, formally incorporated as discrete entities, to escape urban incorporation when Wisconsin state law allowed Milwaukees incorporation of such rural and sub-urban regions, that did not qualify for discrete incorporation, per the legal incorporation standards.[41]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight#cite_note-40> [42] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight#cite_note-41> Desegregation: public schools and student busing Main article: Desegregation busing<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desegregation_busing> The postWorld War II racial desegregation of U.S. society especially of the public schools catalyzed white flight from the cities to the suburbs. In 1954, the US Supreme Court ordered the *de jure* termination of the separate, but equal legal racism established with the *Plessy v. Ferguson<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessy_v._Ferguson> * (1896) case in the nineteenth century, thus, with the *Brown v. Board of Education <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education>* (1954) case, the Supreme Court ordered the racial desegregation of public schools, because the unequal funding of majority-black and majority-white public schools ensured that black people received an inferior public education despite paying taxes for it. In 1971, in the case of *Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swann_v._Charlotte-Mecklenburg_Board_of_Education> * (1971), the Supreme Court ordered the forced busing<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desegregation_busing_in_the_United_States>of poor black students to suburban white schools, and wealthy white students to poor schools in the city. In the case of *Milliken v. Bradley<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milliken_v._Bradley> * (1974), the dissenting Justice William Douglas<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_William_Douglas>observed that the inner core of Detroit is now rather solidly black; and the blacks, we know, in many instances are likely to be poorer. . . . Like-wise, in 1977, the Federal decision in *Penick v. The Columbus Board of Education* (1977) accelerated white flight from Columbus, Ohio. The racial desegregation of schools and the racial integration of U.S. society were most opposed by white people whose children attended private schools, yet, the most vehement opponents of racial integration were white people whose children attended private, religious schools.[43]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight#cite_note-42> [44] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight#cite_note-43> A secondary, non-geographic consequence, of school desegregation and busing was *cultural* white flight: withdrawing white children from the mixed-race public school system and matriculating them to private schools unaffected by U.S. federal integration laws. In 1970, when the United States District Court for the Central District of California<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Central_District_of_California>ordered the Pasadena Unified School District<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasadena_Unified_School_District>desegregated, the white-student proportion (54%) of the schools approximately reflected the school districts proportional white populace (53%). Once the federally-ordered school desegregation occurred, whites who could afford private schools withdrew their children from the racially diverse Pasadena <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasadena,_California> public school system. In result, by 2004, Pasadena had 63 private schools educating some 33% of schoolchildren, while white students made up only 16% of the public school populace. The Pasadena Unified School District superintendent characterized public schools as like the bogey-man to whites and implemented policies meant to persuade white parents to matriculate their children to the racially diverse Pasadena public school district.[45]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight#cite_note-44>In the event, white flight rapidly altered the racial composition of public school systems; upon desegregation, in Baltimore, Maryland, the Clifton Park Junior High School had 2,023 white students and 34 black students; 10 years later, it had 12 white students and 2,037 black students. In northwest Baltimore, Garrison Junior High Schools student body declined from 2,504 whites and 12 blacks to 297 whites and 1,263 blacks in that period.[46]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight#cite_note-45> [edit<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=White_flight&action=edit§ion=15> ] Recent decades In 1967, the 12th Street Riot<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_Street_Riot>of Detroit, Michigan, contributed to white flight, leaving contemporary Detroit more than 80 percent black, and most of its suburbs, including Livonia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livonia,_Michigan>, Dearborn<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dearborn,_Michigan>, and Warren <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren,_Michigan>, overwhelmingly white.[47] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight#cite_note-46> A unique example of white flight in the United States took place in Miami<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami>: in 1980, the Mariel Boatlift <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariel_Boatlift>brought 150,000 Cubans to Miami, the largest such migration in U.S. civilian history[*citation needed<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed> *]. During this time, many of the middle class non-Hispanic whites in the community left the city. As a consequence, while in non-Hispanic whites made up about 90% of Miami's population in 1960, by 1990 they made up only about 10%.[48] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight#cite_note-47> J - Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:322928 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
