Old story. Most states and almost all large cities have this and have since 1970. In 1989, for example, 36 states already had race/sex set-aside programs. Trump admin is fighting it (good for them).
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Many cities have had commissions specifically to find and document (or fabricate) past racial discrimination to justify present set-asides.
It is interesting that Eigen, who is intelligent and probably 99th percentile politically aware, is surprised by this generations-old feature of USian government.
One thing I've changed my mind about through X: @neofabians convinced me that local control is generally a bad idea in the mass migration [including Great Migration for the US] era because it's too easy for concentrated diasporas to take over an area.
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