“Is the [pre-1970s] South really better viewed as a set of enclaves of authoritarian rule somehow allowed to exist within a federal democracy? I think so.” 
“The United States was not a fully democratic polity until preparations were well under way for the celebration of the bicentennial of the Declaration of Independence. Instead, it was a federal polity of representative democracy... with durable enclaves of authoritarian rule.”
(These are from: press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…)
“By one estimate, until the late 1940s, more than four in ten of the [U.S.’s] primary and secondary school students were racially or ethnically segregated across 29 of 48 states (in addition to DC).”
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