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Civil Rights: Segregated America – Circa 2011

http://remappingdebate.org/map-data-tool/mapping-and-analysis-new-data-documents-still-segregated-america

The above link provides a fascinating feature and findings.  The user can focus in on regions, cities, neighborhoods to determine the approximate level of racial/ethnic segregation.  Bottom line:  we still have a long way to go in order to achieve an integrated, unitary society.  On a constitutional level, I believe that these finding further debunk the Supreme Court’s early 1970s decision (5-4 margin) in Milliken v. Bradley, which shot down a multi-district desegregation plan due to substantial evidence of residential housing segregation.

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