1/THREAD on some passages I found interesting from "White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism" amazon.com/White-Flight-A…
2/ In the mayoral race, upper class whites voted with blacks. Similar racial dynamic today where white elites are aligned with blacks against white proles. So much for southern racial unity we hear about...
3/The struggles over integration caused whites to become less community oriented and more individualistic
4/ The upper class whites used private facilities, so weren't effected by decision to integrate public pools and golf courses. Supporting desegregation seems to have become something of a status symbol.
5/There was animosity that whites paid more taxes and blacks received most of the benefits, though some felt that it was justified. A proto Ryan Faulk crunched the numbers:
6/The white elite, thought they would be sheltered from integration until the CR movement came for private businesses as well. As many on this app have noted, the movement completely changed Americas understanding of property rights
7/ We see endless claims of integrationists that they are on the "right side of history" and their opponents are backwards, all supported by big business. The left would have you believe capitalists were fueling segregation!
8/ The "moderates" reaction to Maddox being elected governor reminded me of all the cuckservatives reaction to Donald Trump, blathering on about "hate". "Thats not who we are!"
9/ Whites fled the city, so integration wasn't a success even on its own terms:
10/By the end of the 60s the moderate integrationist former mayor seems to have had enough. This passage reminded me of the former liberal who became the "anti-woke" movement
11/ In the decades since, white students have almost completely disappeared from Atlanta public schools:
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