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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Which is to say, my experience, and all relevant social data... let me repeat that... all relevant social data, suggests that white flight from cities and from public schools continued and was accelerated after desegregation bussing.
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And we have come back to a topic that makes the subject line appropriate: correlation does not imply causation.
You have isolated one of many factors. One that I happen to think is minor, especially compared to the many other structural changes in American (and world) economy and society during the same time period.
The industrial cities of Europe have experienced many of the same social problems you highlight, over the same time period, where bussing (and, of course, white flight) was a non-issue.
All I have been saying is that you exaggerated when you said the unintended consequences of judicial fiat were a significant source of our social ills.
